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1 Schilling - Frederick William
| Issuer | Brandenburg-Prussia, State of |
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| Year | 1659-1660 |
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| Weight | 0.82 g |
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| Reverse description | Central field bears the denomination inscribed in three lines as 'I / SCHIL / LING', with the numeral '52' below, indicating the coin's value as 1/52 of a Thaler in some reckonings or a mint control number. The date '1660' appears in the surrounding legend alongside the mint inscription 'MON NOV MARCANA', identifying this as a new coin of the Mark. The legend encircles the denomination text within a beaded inner circle. The hammered flan exhibits typical peripheral irregularity and moderate die wear. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Frederick William, the "Great Elector," was consolidating Hohenzollern authority across scattered territories in the late 1650s, and small silver issues like this schilling served the grinding commercial needs of Brandenburg's towns while the elector was occupied with the diplomatic maneuvering that would produce the Treaty of Oliva in 1660 — the agreement that finally ended the Northern Wars and secured Prussian ducal sovereignty free from Polish suzerainty. That treaty fundamentally altered the political footing of the Hohenzollern dynasty.