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1 Thaler
| Issuer | Cologne, City of |
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| Year | 1602-1611 |
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| Value | 1 Thaler |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | RVDOLP. II. IMP. AVG. P. F. DECRETO |
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Cologne's civic thalers of this period were struck under constant friction between the city council and the Archbishop, whose authority over the mint had been a point of legal dispute for decades. The city jealously guarded its imperial free city status, and coinage was one of the more visible assertions of that autonomy. These pieces circulated heavily along the Rhine trade corridor, where Cologne functioned as a staple market controlling the movement of goods between the North Sea ports and the upper German cities.
The Noss reference spans multiple die marriages across the decade, accounting for the grouped catalog numbers.