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1 Kreuzer - Charles Thomas
| Uitgever | Principality of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort (Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort, German States) |
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| Jaar | 1767-1769 |
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| Waarde | 1 Kreuzer (1⁄144) |
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| Beschrijving voorzijde | Draped bust of Prince Charles Thomas of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort facing right, depicted in a long curled wig with elaborate lace cravat and armored shoulder, rendered in a bold late Baroque style. The effigy is of high relief, with the hair and drapery finely detailed. The circumferential Latin legend reads CAROL. D. G. S. R. I. PRINC. DE LOEWENSTEIN., running from lower left to lower right around the portrait, bordered by a finely dentilated rim. |
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| Opschrift voorzijde | CAROL. D. G. S. R. I. PRINC. DE LOEWENSTEIN. |
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| Aanvullende informatie |
Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort was among the smallest and most financially constrained of the imperial German principalities, its Catholic branch ruling a fragmented territory whose revenues barely supported a functioning administration. Charles Thomas struck these copper kreuzers during a narrow three-year window, likely under pressure from the monetary conventions of the Holy Roman Empire that required even minor princes to maintain at least nominal coinage rights — a privilege as much political as practical.
The Wibel reference places this squarely among the rarer local copper issues of the period. Surviving examples saw genuine regional circulation before Habsburg monetary rationalization rendered such petty principality coinage increasingly obsolete.