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1 Thaler
| Issuer | Konstanz, City of |
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| Year | 1537-1541 |
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| Value | 1 Thaler |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Konstanz issued thalers during a period of acute political precariousness — the city had broken with the Habsburg emperor Charles V over the Reformation, aligning with the Schmalkaldic League, and was effectively gambling its civic independence on Protestant survival. These coins were struck knowing that a Habsburg reconquest would end the city's minting rights entirely. That reconquest came in 1548, when Konstanz was forced to surrender and lost its status as a Free Imperial City, making the 1537–1541 thaler series among the final expressions of genuinely autonomous municipal coinage from this issuer.