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1 Thaler
| Issuer | Nuremberg, Free imperial city of |
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| Year | 1767-1776 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse lettering | MONETA REIPVBL·NORIMBERG·1767· S· R· X·E·FEINE·M· |
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| Edge | Lettered |
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Nuremberg's thaler coinage of this decade was produced under increasing financial strain as the city's chronic debt crisis — decades in the making — began drawing direct intervention from the Imperial Aulic Council. By the 1760s the city had essentially lost control of its own finances, with imperial commissioners scrutinizing expenditure while the mint continued striking prestige silver largely to maintain the facade of sovereign municipal standing.
Davenport's GT II attribution places this firmly within the later civic issues before Nuremberg's formal financial capitulation in 1796.