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1 Thaler - Anthony
| Issuer | Duchy of Lorraine |
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| Year | 1525 |
| Type | Replica coin |
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| Obverse description | Equestrian effigy of Duke Anthony of Lorraine in armour, mounted on a caparisoned horse prancing to the right, his raised right hand brandishing a sword. The duke wears a plumed helmet and full plate armour with a skirted tasset, and the horse's elaborate trapper is decorated with a pattern of crosses. The Latin legend encircles the type, with the date 1525 appearing in the lower field beneath the horse. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Anthony (Antoine) of Lorraine's thaler-sized gold issue of 1525 places this coin in a peculiar transitional moment: the thaler format was barely a decade old, having emerged from Joachimsthal in Bohemia around 1519, and its adaptation into gold at this weight was far from standardized. Anthony had spent much of the preceding year suppressing the Peasants' War in Alsace and Lorraine — he was among the more effective secular princes in crushing the uprising — and emergency fiscal demands on the ducal treasury during 1524–25 likely drove irregular high-value gold production.