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1 Thaler - Anthony III Pattern
| Issuer | Montfort-Peggau, County of |
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| Year | 1720 |
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| Value | 1 Thaler |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The fully mantled and helmeted arms of the County of Montfort occupy the central field, depicting a shield charged with a castle or architectural device, surmounted by a crested helm with elaborate baroque mantle flowing to either side. The achievement is topped by a princely crown. The date 17 20 is divided and placed in the lower field to either side of the shield, with the Latin motto PRO DEO ET LEGE arranged around the upper periphery within a milled border. |
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Montfort-Peggau was a minor Swabian comital line whose minting rights were perpetually contested, and pattern pieces from this branch are rarely documented with confidence. A gold thaler-sized pattern of 1720 fits the period when such issues were produced more as demonstrations of dynastic ambition than as practical currency — submitted to the emperor or circulated among courts as proof of sovereign pretension rather than commercial intent.
Anthony III's tenure produced almost no confirmed circulating coinage. That this survives in gold suggests it never left the presentation sphere.