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1 Thaler
| Issuer | Cologne, City of |
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| Year | 1577-1597 |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Displayed double-headed imperial eagle with spread wings fills the field, each head surmounted by a crown and both united beneath a central imperial crown above. A orb bearing a cross is placed on the eagle's breast. The circumferential Latin legend references the titles of Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II, reading continuously around the outer border. |
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Cologne maintained the legal status of a Free Imperial City throughout this period, and its right to strike silver coinage of this weight was a jealously guarded privilege repeatedly contested by the Archbishop-Electors who controlled the surrounding territory. The city and the archbishopric ran parallel minting operations for decades, producing superficially similar coins whose issuing authority carried entirely different political implications for merchants using them.
Davenport's German Talers grouping for this type spans a twenty-year window, suggesting multiple die marriages were employed across the issue rather than a single short production run.