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1/4 Thaler - John Schweickhardt of Kronberg Aschaffenburg castle
| Issuer | Archbishopric of Mainz |
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| Year | 1614 |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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John Schweickhardt of Kronberg served as Archbishop-Elector of Mainz from 1604 until his death in 1626, presiding over a diocese increasingly destabilized by the confessional tensions that would erupt into the Thirty Years' War just four years after this coin was struck. Aschaffenburg functioned as a secondary residence of the Mainz archbishops, and issues referencing the castle there carry a specific regional administrative weight — this was not a ceremonial mint location.
The Walther 228 attribution places this among a small group of fractional thalers from Schweickhardt's tenure that are considerably scarcer than his full-thaler output.