1 Thaler

Dortmund struck thalers intermittently throughout the seventeenth century as an Imperial Free City, a status it had held since the medieval period but was increasingly struggling to defend against the territorial ambitions of Brandenburg-Prussia. By 1683 the city's political and economic position was in marked decline — its once-dominant role in Westphalian trade had been gutted by the Thirty Years' War and the subsequent shift of commercial weight toward Hamburg and Bremen. The Dav CCT#5224A designation places this among the rarer die variants documented by Davenport's corpus of city thalers, distinguishable from the more common KM#55 family by specific die characteristics catalogued by Bergh.