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1 Thaler - Albert Wolfgang
| Issuer | County of Schaumburg-Lippe |
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| Year | 1748 |
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| Value | 1 Thaler |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of Count Albert Wolfgang of Schaumburg-Lippe facing left, wearing a long flowing wig with elaborate curls in the Baroque manner and armor with a decorative clasp at the shoulder. A comital crown appears at the lower right of the bust. The circumferential Latin legend reads ALB • WOLFG • D • G • S • R • I • COM • IN • SCH • C • & • N • D • LIPP • & • ST • with the date 1748 incorporated into the legend at right. The coin is struck with strong, high-relief detail characteristic of mid-eighteenth-century German thaler coinage, with a finely milled border encircling the entire design. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Albert Wolfgang ruled Schaumburg-Lippe from 1697 until his death in 1748 — the same year this thaler was struck, making it almost certainly a posthumous memorial issue rather than a coin produced during his active reign. The county was a minor German principality with severely limited minting activity, and thalers from Schaumburg-Lippe are scarce across all periods simply because the fiscal scale of the territory rarely justified large silver coinages. Weinmeister 34 represents one of the few documented heavy silver pieces attributable to this count.