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1 Thaler
| Issuer | Stolberg, County of |
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| Year | 1556 |
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| Reference(s) | MB#46 I#9852 |
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| Reverse description | Displayed double-headed imperial eagle with spread wings, bearing a globus cruciger on its breast, surmounted by a single imperial crown. The eagle fills the inner field, enclosed within a beaded or linear circle. The surrounding legend in Latin abbreviation records the imperial titles of Holy Roman Emperor Karl V, with the date 1556 and mintmaster initials H G incorporated into the legend. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Stolberg's thalers of the mid-sixteenth century were issued jointly under the ruling brothers of the comital house, a dynastic arrangement that produced a bewildering range of co-regency combinations across the series. MB#46 corresponds to an early emission, struck just as the county's silver output was competing for recognition in a market already flooded by Joachimsthaler production from Bohemia.
The Stolberg mint operated intermittently and never at scale. Dies were expensive, output was modest, and surviving examples from the 1550s are genuinely scarce rather than artificially so.