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1/4 Thaler - Maximilian III lion and helmet swapped
| Issuer | Teutonic Order |
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| Year | 1615 |
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| Value | 1/4 Thaler |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Armored and helmeted equestrian effigy of the Grand Master advancing to the right on a draped horse, lance held upright in his right hand. Sixteen heraldic shields of the Teutonic Order's territories arranged in a surrounding border. The composite coat of arms of the Grand Master of the Teutonic Order appears in the lower field beneath the horse. |
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The Teutonic Order's Prussian administration lost direct control of its eastern territories to Polish suzerainty after the 1525 secularization under Albert of Brandenburg-Ansbach, leaving the Order's remaining monetary authority concentrated in the Mergentheim-based German mastership. By 1615 that jurisdiction was under Maximilian III of Austria, who had held the Grand Mastership since 1585. Coins from this administration are scarce precisely because the Order's economic base had contracted so sharply from its medieval peak.
The "lion and helmet swapped" designation refers to a known die error in which the positional relationship of two heraldic elements was reversed from the intended arrangement — a mint-floor mistake rather than an intentional variant.