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1 Sechser
| Issuer | Konstanz, City of |
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| Year | 1627 |
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| Currency | Thaler |
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| Obverse description | Central quartered shield of arms of the city of Konstanz, displaying a cross dividing the quarters, set within an elaborate foliate and strapwork ornamental border with scrolling tendrils and floral elements occupying the field. The design is rendered in a typical late German Renaissance hammered style with no surrounding legend. The shield is topped with a small decorative crown-like element, and the entire composition fills the flan to its irregular edge. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Konstanz struck this small silver piece in 1627 during the early, devastating phase of the Thirty Years' War, when the city was navigating the dangerous political ground between Catholic Imperial forces and its own Protestant sympathies. The city would eventually be occupied by Imperial troops in 1628, making issues from the immediately preceding years operationally significant — local coinage needed to sustain commerce before outside monetary authority arrived to displace it.