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1 Thaler Augsburg Confession
| Issuer | Hamburg, Free Hanseatic city of |
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| Year | 1730 |
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| Currency | Thaler (1675-1872) |
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| Reverse description | Double-headed imperial eagle displayed, each head facing outward and bearing a nimbus, surmounted by a single imperial crown with cross finial at the apex. The eagle's breast bears the orb (Reichsapfel) charged with a cross. The eagle holds a sword in its left talon and a sceptre in its right. A decorative floral ornament appears below the eagle's tail. The circumferential Latin legend naming Emperor Charles VI encircles the design, with a rope border at the rim. |
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| Mintage | 1730 IHL - - 5,000 |
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Struck to mark the bicentennial of the Augsburg Confession of 1530 — the foundational doctrinal statement submitted by Lutheran princes to Emperor Charles V at the Diet of Augsburg. Hamburg, as a staunchly Lutheran free city, had particular investment in this anniversary; the Confession had provided the legal and theological framework under which Protestant cities negotiated their standing within the Holy Roman Empire for two centuries. Several German cities and territories issued commemorative thalers in 1730, making this one entry in a broader wave of Lutheran commemorative minting that year.
Hamburg's civic mint was operating under increasing financial pressure by the 1730s, and commemorative issues like this one were partly vehicles for seigniorage revenue.