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⅛ Thaler - William V
| Issuer | Landgraviate of Hesse-Cassel (Hesse-Cassel) |
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| Year | 1629 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Central device depicts a tall tree buffeted by a violent storm, its branches bending dramatically under the wind — a well-known impresa of the Hessian Landgraves symbolising humble endurance. The surrounding Latin legend, expressing that the humble shall be raised by God's will, is divided into four sections by four armorial shields placed at the cardinal points. An inner beaded border frames the central device. The design reflects the emblematic Renaissance tradition common to German territorial coinage of the period. |
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| Reverse lettering | DEO·VOL ENTE· HUMILIS· LEVABOR |
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William V inherited Hesse-Cassel in 1627, two years before this coin was struck, stepping into one of the most precarious positions in the Holy Roman Empire. His father Moritz had been forced to abdicate under pressure from Emperor Ferdinand II for his Calvinist sympathies, and William immediately found himself navigating the mid-phase of the Thirty Years' War with a depleted treasury and imperial troops operating across his territory. Small-denomination silver fractions like this eighth thaler were the working currency of that instability — coinage issued not from prosperity but from fiscal necessity during a war that would grind on for another nineteen years.