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1 Thaler
| Issuer | Kempten, Free city of |
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| Year | 1541-1549 |
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| Value | 1 Thaler |
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| Obverse lettering | MON . NO . CIVITATIS : CAMPIDO : 1546 |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Kempten's status as a Free Imperial City was perpetually contested during this period — the Benedictine abbey that shared the town exerted constant pressure on civic autonomy, and the city's right to mint was itself a political instrument in that struggle. Thalers struck under the city's own authority, rather than the abbey's, were a direct assertion of independence during years when that independence was genuinely fragile.
The Haertle reference spanning eleven catalogue numbers suggests meaningful die variation across the issue, likely reflecting the full decade of production rather than a single continuous run.