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1 Thaler
| Issuer | Halberstadt, City of |
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| Year | 1631 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Central shield bearing the arms of the City of Halberstadt — a vertically divided escutcheon with a checkered base — surmounted by a crested episcopal helmet with elaborate acanthus mantling spreading symmetrically into the field. Mintmaster's initials C-Z appear flanking the helmet crest. The date 1631 and the city name HALBERST are incorporated into the surrounding circular legend, with the inscription MONIT NOV (Nova Moneta) completing the legend. The composition is rendered in high relief with bold baroque ornamentation typical of early seventeenth-century German municipal coinage. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Halberstadt spent much of 1631 directly in the path of the Thirty Years' War. The city fell to Imperial forces early in the conflict and would be sacked by troops under Tilly later that same year, making civic coinage from this precise moment a product of a municipality under acute existential pressure. That the city mint was functioning at all in 1631 says something about the administrative persistence of German municipal authorities even as the surrounding region was being systematically destroyed.
The .2 variety distinguishes this from KM#66.1 by die characteristics documented in the Dav CCT attribution.