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1/4 Thaler - Louis, Henry, Albert George, Christoph and Wolf Ernest
| Issuer | Stolberg, County of |
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| Year | 1573 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Centrally positioned six-field quartered shield of arms bearing the combined heraldic devices of the County of Stolberg and its associated lordships, including lions, an eagle, a chevron, and chequered quarters, surmounted by a closed imperial crown. The shield is enclosed within a beaded inner circle. The surrounding Latin legend in Gothic lettering reads the titles of the counts continued, referencing their dignity as Counts in Stolberg (CO·D·O·IN·STOLB·VNIG·R·VEPINWE or similar), with floral stops separating the abbreviated titles. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Stolberg's multi-lord coinage reflects the county's persistent practice of joint rule among agnatic heirs, a arrangement that produced some of the most administratively complex coinages of sixteenth-century German territorial minting. The five counts named on this issue — Louis, Henry, Albert George, Christoph, and Wolf Ernest — governed simultaneously under the Stolberg partition system, obligating the mint to acknowledge each lord's co-sovereignty on a single flan no larger than a quarter thaler's worth of silver.
Schult 3434 is scarce by any measure. Joint-reign issues of this type rarely achieved large mintages; the logistical and political overhead of coordinating five co-issuers in 1573 likely kept production runs modest.