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1 Thaler
| Issuer | Magdeburg, City of |
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| Year | 1572 |
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| Currency | Thaler |
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| Reverse description | A large, spread double-headed imperial eagle with detailed feathering fills the reverse field, each head crowned individually and surmounted by a single imperial crown at the apex. An orb bearing the denomination numeral 24 (indicating the coin's value in Groschen) is displayed on the eagle's breast. The surrounding Latin legend references Emperor Maximilian II, reading MAXIMILIANI. II. D. G. - RO. IM. SEM. AVG., affirming the coin's status as currency under the Holy Roman Empire. |
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| Reverse lettering | MAXIMILIANI. II. D. G. - RO. IM. SEM. AVG. |
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Magdeburg's civic thalers of the 1570s were struck at a moment of sustained tension between the city's Lutheran magistracy and the surrounding Archbishopric — a conflict that predated the Reformation wars and would eventually culminate in the catastrophic sack of 1631, when imperial and League forces under Tilly reduced one of Germany's largest cities to ash and killed upwards of 20,000 inhabitants. The city's independent coinage was an assertion of municipal autonomy, not merely a commercial convenience.
Davenport's GT I listing places this squarely within the broad thaler series traceable through the Schrock corpus. The MB#51 reference suggests a relatively confined emission.