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1 Thaler
| Issuer | Free Imperial City of Bremen |
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| Year | 1602-1603 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse lettering | MONETA NOUA REIPUBLICÆ BREMENSIS 16 0Z |
| Reverse description | Double-headed imperial eagle displayed, with wings spread, both heads crowned individually and surmounted by a single large imperial crown at the top. On the eagle's breast, a sceptre and orb are depicted at the centre. The bold circular legend naming Emperor Rudolf II runs around the periphery, interrupted by decorative stops, within a beaded border. |
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Bremen's thalers of this period were struck under the city's status as a Free Imperial City — a designation it had held since the medieval period but which was under increasing pressure from the surrounding Duchy of Bremen, controlled by the Archbishop. The early 1600s were a particularly tense moment in that friction, coming just over a decade before the Thirty Years' War would make the region a contested zone. The city's insistence on minting its own coinage was a deliberate assertion of that independence, not administrative routine.
The KM#52.1 designation distinguishes this from related die marriages in the series. Jungk#445 remains the standard reference for Bremen municipal coinage.