1 Thaler

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.