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1 Groschen - Albert Anthony I Death
| Issuer | Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt |
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| Year | 1670 |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Reverse description | The reverse bears a seven-line Latin funerary inscription filling the entire field, recording the birth and death dates of Countess Aemilia Antonia: born at Castle Delmenhorst on 15 June 1614, and died at Leutenberg on 4 December 1670. The text is presented in an epigraphic tablet format without a surrounding border legend, with each line separated by punctuation stops and ornamental markers. The inscription is enclosed within a beaded border. This austere, text-only design is typical of 17th-century German memorial groschen issued to commemorate the deaths of ruling family members. |
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| Reverse lettering | NATA / IN CASTEL / DELMENH: / D: XV. IUN 16 / 14 DENAT: ✴ Z / LEUTENB. D. / 4. DEC. ✴ Z / .1670. |
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Albert Anthony I of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt died in 1669, and this memorial groschen was struck the following year under his successor Ludwig Friedrich I. Funeral and memorial coinages were a deeply embedded practice among the small Lutheran principalities of the Holy Roman Empire — partly pious, partly political, asserting dynastic continuity at precisely the moment a succession was most vulnerable to challenge.
Fischer Sc#503 distinguishes this piece within a crowded field of Schwarzburg memorial issues from the same decades.