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1 Guldenthaler
| Issuer | Strasbourg, City of |
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| Year | 1668 |
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| Value | 1 Guldenthaler (⅚) |
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| Obverse description | Central field occupied by the crowned arms of the City of Strasbourg — a bend sinister on a shield — set within an ornate baroque cartouche with scrollwork and foliate decoration. The denomination mark 'LX·K·' (denoting 60 Kreuzer) appears above the shield within the inner beaded circle. The circumferential Latin legend reads MONETA • NOVA • REIP • ARGENTINENSIS, separated from the toothed outer border by a second beaded ring. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Strasbourg's civic coinage in the 1660s was produced under increasing pressure from Louis XIV, whose ambitions toward Alsace were no secret. The city retained its status as a Free Imperial City until 1681, when French forces occupied it without resistance — making issues from this final decade of genuine municipal independence historically loaded in ways the coin's face value never suggested.
The Davenport reference places this among the larger Taler-equivalent silver of the Electoral Circle series. The 1668 date falls just three years after the Treaty of the Pyrenees reshaped the French-Habsburg borderlands, with Strasbourg watching its political buffer evaporate.