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1 Thaler
| Issuer | Nuremberg, Free imperial city of |
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| Year | 1711 |
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| Value | 1 Thaler |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A panoramic view of the city of Nuremberg occupies the lower half of the field, depicting the skyline with characteristic towers, spires, and fortifications in fine relief. Above the cityscape, the imperial double-headed eagle soars with wings spread, bearing two heraldic shields on its breast, and above the eagle a radiant all-seeing eye within a triangle emits rays of divine light. The circular Latin legend SUB UMBRA ALARUM TUARUM encircles the design, invoking divine protection. In the lower exergue, the two-line inscription MONETA REIP. / NORIMB. 1711. identifies the coin as the currency of the Nuremberg Republic with the date. |
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1711 marks the year of the Imperial coronation of Charles VI in Frankfurt, and Nuremberg — as a free imperial city with deep financial ties to the Habsburgs — routinely struck presentation and commemorative thalers around such dynastic events. Whether this piece was tied directly to that occasion or to the city's ongoing municipal coinage program is a question the KM reference alone doesn't resolve. Nuremberg's mint was among the most technically sophisticated in the Holy Roman Empire, operating under strict guild oversight that kept die workmanship consistently high through the early eighteenth century.