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1 Thaler
| Issuer | Bremen, City of |
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| Year | 1743 |
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| Currency | Thaler |
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| Obverse description | The central field displays the crowned civic arms of Bremen — a shield bearing a silver key on a red ground — flanked by two rampant lion supporters standing on a decorative scrollwork base. A municipal crown surmounts the shield. The circular legend reads MONETA. NOVA. REIPUBL: BREMENSIS. around the periphery, separated by rosette stops, rendered in raised Latin lettering within a milled border. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Bremen struck thalers on its own authority as a Free Imperial City, a status it jealously protected throughout the Holy Roman Empire's final century. The 1743 issue falls within a period when the city's merchant senate was navigating the competing pressures of Hanoverian expansion and Prussian ambition along the Weser corridor — coinage was as much a political assertion as a commercial instrument.
KM#183 is catalogued as a one-year type with relatively modest surviving populations in problem-free condition, largely attributable to the heavy commercial use Bremen's thalers saw in North Sea trade circuits.