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1 Thaler
| Issuer | Stolberg, County of |
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| Year | 1572 |
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| Reference(s) | MB#70 I#9859 |
| Obverse description | Central eightfold quartered coat of arms of the County of Stolberg, with the date divided across the lower field, surmounted by three elaborately plumed and crested helms with mantling. The surrounding circular legend within a beaded border names the five co-ruling counts in abbreviated Latin titulature. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Stolberg's thaler coinage of the 1570s was produced under the joint authority of the comital house during a period when the county was parceled among multiple branches of the Stolberg family — a dynastic arrangement that generated a bewildering variety of co-regency issues distinguished primarily by which combination of counts authorized the striking. The MB#70 attribution places this squarely within that complicated succession of types.
The Harz region's silver supply, drawn from mines the Stolbergs controlled in part through their territorial position near Mansfeld, underpinned the county's ability to strike full thalers at all — a capacity most comparably-sized German counties simply lacked.