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1 Thaler - Charles Adam
| Issuer | Mansfeld-Bornstedt, County of |
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| Year | 1655-1660 |
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| Weight | 28.5 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | NOB DOM IN HELDRVNGEN DOM IN FRIDEB S E H |
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The Mansfeld counties were fragmented to an almost absurd degree by the mid-seventeenth century, the result of generations of partition inheritance among competing lines of the same dynasty. Bornstedt was one of several sub-counties carved from the original Mansfeld territory, each issuing its own coinage despite controlling little more than a handful of villages and exhausted copper mines. Charles Adam ruled Bornstedt during the grinding aftermath of the Thirty Years' War, when the entire Mansfeld region had been among the most fought-over and economically devastated territories in the Empire.
Dav ST#6930 distinguishes this issue from the closely related Mansfeld thalers of adjacent lines, which causes persistent attribution confusion in the trade.