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1 Thaler - Albert V
| Issuer | Bavaria, Duchy of |
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| Year | 1557 |
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| Value | 1 Thaler (1.5) |
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| Obverse lettering | + ALBERTVS. CO(M). PA. RH. BAVARIÆ. DVX. 15.57 |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Albert V inherited a duchy nearly bankrupt from his predecessor's debts and spent his early reign navigating between Lutheran pressure from the estates and his own firm Catholicism — a tension that shaped Bavarian politics for decades. The 1557 date falls squarely in that volatile period, before the Religious Colloquy of Worms and well before the Counter-Reformation machinery gave him firmer ground to stand on. Coinage was one of the few levers of ducal authority he could exercise without negotiating with the estates.
The Dav GT I 8922A reference places this among the earlier Albertine thalers, distinguished from closely related varieties by specific die characteristics catalogued by Hahn.