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1/4 Thaler - Maximilian III
| Issuer | Teutonic Order |
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| Year | 1615 |
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| Currency | Thaler (1525-1809) |
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| Reverse description | Armored equestrian figure of Maximilian III mounted on a prancing horse facing right, the rider carrying a lance or baton. Surrounding the central equestrian motif is a circular arrangement of heraldic shields representing the various territorial dignities and offices of the Hochmeister. The large composite shield of the Teutonic Order is prominently displayed at the base, flanked by additional armorial bearings completing the heraldic border. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Maximilian III of Austria served as Grand Master of the Teutonic Order from 1590 until his death in 1618, a tenure during which the Order's actual military power had long since collapsed but its ceremonial coinage continued uninterrupted. By 1615 the Order functioned essentially as a Habsburg client institution, its Mergentheim mint producing silver fractions that circulated more as statements of jurisdictional survival than instruments of trade.
Prokisch 71d distinguishes this as one of several die variants documented within the 1615 quarter thaler production — Prokisch's cataloguing of Maximilian's coinage remains the authoritative die study for this series.