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1 Thaler
| Issuer | Regensburg, Free city of |
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| Year | 1775 |
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| Value | 1 Thaler |
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| Obverse description | The city arms of Regensburg — two crossed keys above two shields — displayed at centre within a large laurel wreath tied at the base. The circular legend DOMINE CONSERVA NOS IN PACE arcs around the upper field, while the engraver's initials G·C·B· appear in the lower field flanking the wreath. A horizontal rule beneath the wreath separates the inscription MON · REIP · RATISP · / X · EINE F · MARK / 1775, denoting the monetary authority and fineness standard. The overall composition is rendered in high relief with fine baroque detail. |
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| Obverse lettering | DOMINE CONSERVA NOS IN PACE G C B MON REIP RATISP X EINE F MARK 1775 |
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Regensburg's status as a Free Imperial City gave it the right to strike its own coinage, a privilege it exercised jealously well into the eighteenth century despite being physically surrounded by Bavarian territory whose rulers repeatedly coveted absorption of the city. By 1775 the city's commercial importance had declined sharply from its medieval peak as a Danube trading hub, and the thaler issues of this period were struck as much to assert continuing autonomy as for practical monetary need.
The Davenport reference places this within the German Taler series, and Beckenbach's tighter cataloguing of Regensburg municipal issues confirms relatively modest surviving populations across the 1770s civic thalers.