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1⁄48 Thaler - Jost Christian and Christof Louis II
| Issuer | Stolberg-Stolberg, County of |
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| Year | 1739 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse displays a bold four-line denomination inscription arranged centrally in the field, reading 48 / EINEN / THALER / FEIN SILB., confirming the coin's value as the 48th part of a fine silver Thaler. Below the inscription, the mintmaster's initials I.I.G. flank and divide the date 1739. The lettering is in a clean Roman typeface typical of early 18th-century German minor coinage, set within a finely milled border. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Stolberg-Stolberg spent much of the eighteenth century under joint rule, a product of inheritance arrangements that kept the county divided between collateral lines rather than consolidated. Jost Christian and Christoph Ludwig II ruled together from 1704 until Jost Christian's death in 1739 — the same year this coin was struck — making it almost certainly a terminal issue of their joint coinage.
At 1/48 Thaler, this is the smallest silver fraction in regular Stolberg emission, produced primarily for local market transactions in a county with negligible political weight but a surprisingly active mint history documented through Müseler's exhaustive regional survey.