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1 Thaler
| Issuer | Frankfurt, Free imperial city of |
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| Year | 1572 |
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| Weight | 29.0 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A large plain cross with expanded arms set within a quatrefoil or ornamental lobate inner border, the four angles of the cross containing the separated numerals of the date 1-5-7-2. The entire design is enclosed within a beaded circle, with the circumferential religious legend running along the outer border. The cross occupies the full field of the inner circle, giving the reverse a bold, heraldic appearance characteristic of Frankfurt municipal coinage of the period. |
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Frankfurt's thaler coinage of the 1570s was struck at a moment when the city was navigating the competing monetary demands of the Holy Roman Empire's emerging Reichsmünzordnung — the imperial minting ordinance that had been repeatedly revised since 1524 in attempts to standardize currency across fragmented German territories. As a free imperial city, Frankfurt answered directly to the Emperor rather than any territorial prince, which gave its mint a degree of autonomy that smaller cities lacked, but also made it a direct target of imperial inspection.
The Joachimsthaler weight standard this piece follows had by 1572 already been contested for decades by cities reluctant to surrender profitable local debasement.