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1 Kreuzer - Maximilian I
| Issuer | Bavaria, Electorate of |
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| Year | 1633 |
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| Currency | Thaler (1623-1752) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Struck in the thick of the Thirty Years' War, this issue dates to the year Imperial and Bavarian Catholic League forces were consolidating gains following the death of Gustavus Adolphus at Lützen the previous November. Maximilian I had received the electoral dignity from Emperor Ferdinand II in 1623 as direct reward for his military and financial support — a transfer of the Palatinate electorate that was itself one of the war's central grievances.
Small silver kreuzer of this period circulated under extreme duress, with chronic debasement crises and the Kipper und Wipper inflation of the early 1620s still fresh in regional memory.