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1 Thaler - Anna Salome I
| Issuer | Abbey of Essen |
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| Year | 1660 |
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| Currency | Thaler |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of Anna Salome I, Abbess of Essen, facing three-quarters to the left, with long flowing hair adorned with a braided headpiece and a pearl necklace at the décolletage. The effigy is rendered in finely engraved Baroque style within a plain inner circle. A continuous Latin legend surrounds the portrait within a beaded border, reading the abbess's full title and lineage. |
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| Mintage | 1660 |
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Anna Salome von Salm-Reifferscheidt ruled as abbess of Essen from 1646 until her death in 1688, making her one of the longer-tenured heads of that imperial abbey. Essen held the status of a Reichsstift — an immediate imperial abbey answerable directly to the Emperor — giving its abbess the right to strike coinage in her own name, a privilege this thaler exercises fully.
The abbey's minting activity was never prolific, and surviving examples across all Anna Salome issues are scarce. Dav. 5276 is among the more frequently encountered of her thalers, which says little in absolute terms.