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1/4 Thaler - Louis V
| Issuer | Hesse-Darmstadt |
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| Year | 1618 |
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| Currency | Thaler (1568-1805) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Central device depicts the Hessian lion rampant to the left, elaborately rendered with a decorative mane and holding a sword, set against a horizontally striped barry field representing the arms of Thuringia, all within an inner circle. Flanking the lion are additional heraldic elements including wavy barry bands. The surrounding legend, separated from the central device by a beaded inner border, reads IN TE DOMINE CONFIDO (In Thee, O Lord, I trust), a pious motto characteristic of Hessian coinage of this period, interspersed with asterisk stops. The date 1618 appears within the legend field to the left of the central device. |
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Louis V ruled Hesse-Darmstadt during one of the most fractious periods in German territorial history — 1618 being the very year the Thirty Years' War ignited with the Defenestration of Prague. Hesse-Darmstadt and its northern neighbor Hesse-Kassel had been bitterly divided since the landgraviate's partition in 1567, and the two branches would back opposing sides in the coming conflict, Darmstadt siding with the Emperor against Kassel's Reformed Protestant alliance.
KM#7 is among the earliest documented quarter thaler issues of the Darmstadt branch, struck at a mint whose output for this reign remains relatively sparse in surviving examples.