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1 Thaler
| Issuer | Freiburg im Breisgau, City of |
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| Year | 1738 |
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| Currency | Thaler |
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| Reverse description | Imperial double-headed eagle displayed, with wings spread, holding a sword in the left talon and a scepter in the right talon. The breast of the eagle bears an escutcheon with the city arms of Freiburg. The eagle is surmounted by an imperial crown above both heads. The circumferential Latin legend, invoking divine peace, runs around the full border separated by dot stops, reading: DA PACEM DOMINE IN DIEB NOSTRIS. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Freiburg im Breisgau retained its status as a free imperial city with minting rights well into the eighteenth century, though by 1738 that autonomy was increasingly nominal under Habsburg pressure. The city's thalers from this period were struck infrequently and in limited quantities, primarily for ceremonial and trade purposes rather than everyday exchange. Austrian administrative consolidation would effectively end meaningful independent coinage from Freiburg within a generation.