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1 Thaler
| Issuer | Memmingen, City of |
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| Year | 1712 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Lettered |
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Memmingen was a Free Imperial City of the Holy Roman Empire, and its right to strike coinage — jealously maintained through the early eighteenth century — was already an anachronism by 1712. Most cities of comparable standing had effectively lost practical minting authority decades earlier. That Memmingen produced thalers this late reflects a deliberate civic assertion, not commercial necessity; the city's population at the time barely exceeded five thousand.
The Davenport reference places this within the German Talers II sequence, and Nau's localized census work on Memmingen coinage identified very few die marriages for this type.