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1 Guldenthaler Shooting festival
| Issuer | Strasbourg, City of |
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| Year | 1576 |
| Type | Commemorative circulation coin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | 1576 |
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Strasbourg's municipal shooting festivals — the Freischießen — were major civic events that drew marksmen from across the Holy Roman Empire, and the city issued commemorative thalers specifically as prizes or presentation pieces for these competitions. The 1576 issue falls during a period when Strasbourg was navigating the fault lines of the Reformation with careful civic pragmatism, officially Lutheran since 1529 but managing a diverse population that included significant Catholic and Reformed minorities.
The Guldenthaler denomination, pegged to the Rhenish gulden in value rather than struck to imperial thaler weight standards, was a deliberate monetary choice reflecting the city's commercial orientation toward the Rhine trade networks.