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1 Thaler
| Issuer | Nuremberg, Free imperial city of |
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| Year | 1765 |
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| Currency | Konventionsthaler (1754-1807) |
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| Reverse description | Right-facing armored and laureate bust of Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II, rendered in high relief with elaborate detail. The emperor is depicted wearing plate armor over which a finely engraved imperial mantle falls across the truncation, with a laurel wreath crowning his head. His long, flowing curled wig cascades over his shoulders in the baroque manner. The surrounding legend IOSEPHVS II • D • G • ROM • IMP • SEMP • AVG • identifies him as Emperor of Rome by the grace of God, always august. The coin is bordered by a fine toothed rim. |
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| Mintage | 1765 SR |
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Nuremberg struck thalers under imperial license but as a self-governing city retained tight control over its own coinage — a privilege it defended jealously against both Bavarian encroachment and Habsburgs attempts to standardize German silver. By 1765, the city's financial position was deteriorating badly; decades of war debt from the Seven Years' War, which had ended just two years prior, had strained municipal coffers to the point where coinage policy became a matter of civic survival rather than prestige. The Dav GT II reference places this squarely in the Germanica Thaler series.