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1 Thaler
| Issuer | Bremen, City of |
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| Year | 1650-1657 |
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| Engraver(s) | Thomas Isenbern |
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| Reverse description | Displayed double-headed Imperial eagle with wings spread, each head crowned and surmounted by a single large crown above, the orb of the Holy Roman Empire on the eagle's breast. The whole is rendered in high relief in the baroque manner. A beaded inner border surrounds the design, with the circular legend attributing the authority of Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor, running continuously around the periphery. |
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| Mintage | 1650 - KM# 116.1; lions looking inward - 1,627 1657 - KM# 116.2; lions looking outward - 378 1657 - KM#116.3; different lions; `MON: NOVA: ARG.` - |
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Bremen's thaler coinage of this period reflects the city's precarious position in the immediate aftermath of the Thirty Years' War — a conflict that had devastated much of the German monetary system through widespread debasement and the flood of low-grade Kipper und Wipper coinage. As a Free Imperial City, Bremen maintained independent minting rights, and the decision to strike full-weight silver thalers during the 1650s was partly a deliberate assertion of financial credibility at a moment when trust in German coinage had been badly damaged.
KM#116 spans a seven-year emission window, suggesting steady rather than emergency production.