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1/4 Thaler - Henry II and Gotthelf Wilhelm
| Issuer | Mansfeld-Schraplau, County of |
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| Year | 1593-1594 |
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| Value | 1/4 Thaler |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Mansfeld-Schraplau was one of several partitioned lines of the fractious Mansfeld county, a territory that spent much of the sixteenth century dividing and subdividing its copper- and silver-rich lands among competing heirs. Henry II and Gotthelf Wilhelm ruled jointly under the co-lordship arrangements that characterized late Mansfeld governance — a system that produced an enormous variety of short-lived coinage types before the entire county was absorbed by electoral Saxony following the Mansfeld bankruptcy proceedings of the early seventeenth century.
The two-year window of this issue reflects just how rapidly administrations turned over in the terminal decades of Mansfeld independence.