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1 Thaler - Anselm Casimir Wambolt of Umstadt
| Issuer | Archbishopric of Mainz |
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| Year | 1630 |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Obverse lettering | ARCHI:EPS:ANSELM:CASIMVS:D |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Anselm Casimir Wambolt von Umstadt was elected Archbishop of Mainz in 1629, inheriting an electorate already being consumed by the Thirty Years' War. His tenure opened with Imperial and Swedish armies alternately occupying, looting, and taxing the Rhineland into exhaustion. This thaler, struck in the first full year of his reign, was almost certainly minted to meet immediate fiscal demands — war indemnities and garrison costs drained the treasury faster than normal revenue could supply it.
Mainz fell to Swedish forces under Gustav II Adolf in December 1631, barely a year after this coin was struck.