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1 Reichsthaler - John Casimir Sterbetaler
| Issuer | Duchy of Saxe-Coburg-Eisenach |
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| Year | 1633 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#136, Dav ST#7433, Grasser#208, Slg. Merse#3008 |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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John Casimir of Saxe-Coburg died in July 1633, deep in the misery of the Thirty Years' War — a conflict that had already reduced much of the Thuringian territories to ruin through repeated Swedish, Imperial, and Wallenstein's marauding forces. The Sterbetaler, struck as a memorial death thaler, was a well-established German tradition by this point, but Casimir's example carries particular weight: he died without male heirs, extinguishing his line and triggering the absorption of Saxe-Coburg-Eisenach back into the Ernestine Saxon lands.
The Grasser and Slg. Merse references both treat this as a low-survival issue, consistent with the disrupted minting conditions across the Thuringian circle during 1633.