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| Issuer | East Frisia |
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| Year | 1686 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse lettering | CHRIST EBERH D G PR FRISIÆ OR |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Christian Eberhard ruled East Frisia from 1665 until his death in 1708, a tenure marked by persistent conflict with the Estates over fiscal authority — the same tension that plagued nearly every minor German principality in the late seventeenth century. The gulden coinage of this period served the practical demands of a territory caught between Dutch commercial influence to the west and the broader circulation networks of the Holy Roman Empire.
KM#82 is not a common type; East Frisian silver of this decade survives in limited numbers, partly because the principality's minting output was never large and partly because much of it circulated heavily in regional trade.