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1 Thaler
| Issuer | Magdeburg, City of |
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| Year | 1570 |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A crowned double-headed imperial eagle displayed in the field, its wings spread, with a central shield on the breast containing the numeral 24 (denoting the value in Groschen). The eagle's two heads face outward beneath a single imperial crown. The surrounding legend references Emperor Maximilian II as Holy Roman Emperor, reading MAXIM·Z·D·G·ROM·IMPSEM·AUGG in Latin. |
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Magdeburg's civic coinage of the 1570s was produced under the shadow of ongoing friction between the city council and the surrounding archbishopric — a tension that would eventually culminate in the catastrophic sack of 1631, when imperial and Liga forces killed the majority of the city's population in one of the Thirty Years' War's worst atrocities. The city's right to strike thalers was itself a contested privilege, periodically challenged by the Archbishop as an assertion of independence the ecclesiastical authority found inconvenient.
KM#2 is among the earliest documented thaler attributable to the city's own civic mint rather than the archiepiscopal authority.