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1 Guldenthaler - Louis the Pious
| Issuer | Württemberg, Duchy of |
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| Year | 1572 |
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| Value | 60 Kreuzers (1) |
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| Obverse description | Central ornate quartered shield bearing the arms of Württemberg and Teck, with the date divided across the field. The shield displays the characteristic Württemberg three antlers in the upper-left and lower-right quarters alongside the Teck checky pattern. A circular legend in Latin surrounds the shield, reading the duke's full title, with the date numerals interspersed within the field. The overall style is consistent with mid-sixteenth-century German Renaissance heraldic engraving. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Louis the Pious ruled Württemberg during a period of acute confessional tension, navigating the duchy's Lutheran commitments against pressure from Habsburg Catholic neighbors. The 1572 date places this issue just one year after the promulgation of the Formula of Concord's early drafts — a moment when Lutheran territorial princes were actively consolidating doctrinal and political identity through every available medium, coinage among them.
The Davenport SG#140 attribution situates this within the German States Guldenthalers, a denomination that emerged as a practical bridge between the Thaler and older Rhenish Gulden accounting traditions. Württemberg's minting output in this decade was relatively modest, and Louis died in 1593 having struck far fewer large silver pieces than his contemporaries in Saxony or Brandenburg.