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1/4 Thaler - John George I, Peter Ernest I and John Hoyer III
| Issuer | Mansfeld-Eisleben, County of |
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| Year | 1573-1577 |
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| Currency | Thaler (1531-1710) |
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| Reverse description | Quartered shield displaying the new Mansfeld arms — comprising horizontal bars, an eagle, and floral or heraldic charges — occupying the central field within a beaded inner circle. The four-digit date appears above the shield. The surrounding Latin legend commences with a small imperial orb privy mark and references the three co-ruling counts of the Eisleben line. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Mansfeld-Eisleben was administered jointly by multiple comital lines throughout the sixteenth century, a fractious arrangement that produced an unusual proliferation of multi-named coinage as each branch insisted on representation in the legends. The three counts named here — John George I, Peter Ernest I, and John Hoyer III — governed during a period when the Mansfeld copper mines, once among the most productive in the Holy Roman Empire, were entering a prolonged financial crisis that would eventually force the county into imperial administration by 1570. Coinage from this exact window reflects an authority trying to project stability it no longer possessed.