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1 Thaler
| Issuer | Dortmund, City of |
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| Year | 1553-1555 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Half-length portrait of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V (Karl V), crowned and clad in armour, facing right, holding a scepter over his right shoulder. The emperor is depicted in the Renaissance style typical of mid-16th-century German imperial coinage, with detailed rendering of the imperial regalia. The surrounding Latin legend, separated by pellets, proclaims his imperial titles. A beaded inner border frames the central design. |
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Dortmund's status as a Free Imperial City gave it the right to strike its own coinage, a privilege it exercised jealously during the mid-sixteenth century when the thaler format was still consolidating as the dominant large silver denomination across the Holy Roman Empire. This three-year emission corresponds to a period of intense municipal fiscal pressure, as Dortmund's commercial importance — once anchored in the Hanseatic League — was already in structural decline relative to rising Rhine competitors like Cologne.
Davenport's attribution in German Talers places this among the scarcer civic issues of the period. Municipal thalers of this size and weight often saw limited production runs, and Dortmund's output across these years is not documented with surviving mint accounts.