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1 Thaler
| Issuer | Dortmund, City of |
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| Year | 1683 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse lettering | * MONETA • NOVA • CIVIT • IMPER • TREMONIENSIS DOMINE • CONSERVA • NOS • IN • PACE 16 / 83 |
| Reverse description | Laureate and draped bust of Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I facing right, depicted with long flowing hair and wearing elaborately decorated armor with a lace cravat and imperial mantle. The portrait is rendered in fine baroque style with strong relief. A circular Latin legend surrounds the effigy, naming the emperor and his titles, separated by pellets. |
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Dortmund's status as a Free Imperial City gave it the right to strike its own coinage, a privilege it exercised intermittently and often contentiously with neighboring territorial powers. By 1683, the city's minting activity was already anachronistic — most comparably sized Imperial cities had effectively ceded monetary production to larger regional authorities decades earlier. The thaler series to which this piece belongs spans several die marriages catalogued under Davenport's CCT, with the .3 variety distinguished by specific reverse die characteristics documented by Berghaus.