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1 Thaler
| Issuer | Regensburg, Free city of |
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| Year | 1632 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse lettering | MONE REIPVB RATISBONENSIS |
| Reverse description | Displayed double-headed imperial eagle with wings spread, each head facing outward, the Habsburg escutcheon charged on the breast. The eagle holds a sceptre in its right talon and a sword in its left; an imperial orb surmounts the junction of the two necks, topped by an open imperial crown. The circumferential Latin legend naming Emperor Ferdinand II surrounds the eagle within a beaded border, with the date 1632 incorporated into the legend at the top of the field. |
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Regensburg sat directly in the path of the Thirty Years' War in 1632 — the same year Imperial and Swedish forces fought for control of the city. Maximilian I of Bavaria had held it; Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden took it in November of that year, just weeks before his death at Lützen. A free imperial city issuing its own thaler currency during active military occupation was not merely an administrative act but a deliberate assertion of civic continuity under existential pressure.
The Beckenbach reference places this among a small cluster of Regensburg thalers struck in a single turbulent year, making survivors in any condition genuinely scarce.