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1 Guldentaler - Ulrich VI
| Issuer | County of Regenstein |
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| Year | 1546-1548 |
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| Weight | 28.63 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A large Imperial double-headed eagle displayed in the center of the field, with both heads crowned and a small orb or scepter device on the breast, rendered in the bold hammered style typical of mid-sixteenth-century German thaler coinage. The eagle's wings are spread wide, filling the inner field, with talons displayed below. The surrounding Latin legend names Emperor Charles V with his Imperial titles, separated by decorative mullets or stars, and runs continuously around the outer border within a beaded circle. |
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The County of Regenstein was a minor Harz region lordship already in steep decline by the 1540s, heavily indebted and caught between the territorial ambitions of the Duchy of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel and the Bishopric of Halberstadt. Ulrich VI issued this guldentaler during a narrow window before the county was effectively absorbed — making the emission less a confident act of monetary authority than a last assertion of comital independence by a house running out of time.
Davenport's attribution to this brief three-year window reflects genuine uncertainty in the secondary literature about precise dating within the issue.