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1 Thaler
| Issuer | Bremen, City of |
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| Year | 1542-1547 |
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| Value | 1 Thaler |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A large crowned double-headed imperial eagle displayed in the field, with both heads facing outward, wings spread, and talons visible at the base. The imperial crown surmounts the conjoined necks above. The eagle, rendered in the bold hammered style typical of mid-sixteenth-century German thalers, fills the inner circle entirely. The circumferential legend acknowledges the overlordship of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V. |
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Bremen struck thalers during this period under the authority of its city council, operating as a largely autonomous imperial free city within the Holy Roman Empire. The 1540s were a period of acute religious tension in Bremen — the city had formally adopted Lutheranism in 1522, making it among the earliest major urban centers to break with Rome, and municipal coinage issued in this period carried implicit political weight as an assertion of civic independence from both ecclesiastical and imperial pressure.
The Davenport reference placing this under German Talers I confirms the broad thaler standard, though the relatively tight five-year window suggests a specific authorization rather than a continuous series.