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1 Thaler
| Issuer | Magdeburg, City of |
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| Year | 1571 |
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| Currency | Thaler |
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| Obverse lettering | MONETA. NOVA. CIVITA. MAGDEBVR. 15 71 |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Magdeburg's civic thalers of this period were struck at a moment of considerable municipal independence — the city operated as a powerful archiepiscopal and trading center within the Holy Roman Empire, and its right to mint was both a commercial tool and a political statement. By 1571, the city was deeply entangled in the confessional politics that would eventually make it the target of one of the Thirty Years' War's most catastrophic events: the 1631 sack by Tilly's forces, which killed upward of 20,000 inhabitants and effectively ended Magdeburg's minting tradition.
Davenport's German Talers cataloguing places this piece within a well-documented but scarce civic series.