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1 Thaler - Charles Albert I
| Issuer | Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schilingfürst, County of |
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| Year | 1757 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of Prince Carl Albert of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg facing right, depicted in elaborate court dress with lace cravat and armor, his hair rendered in the naturalistic Baroque style with flowing curls. The circular legend surrounds the effigy, interrupted by the motto DEO PATRIAE NON NOBIS to the left of the bust. The engraver's signature I. L. OEXLEIN f. appears in small letters along the lower rim beneath the truncation. The portrait is finely executed in high relief, characteristic of the skilled hand of Nuremberg die-engraver Johann Leonhard Oexlein. |
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| Obverse lettering | CAR: ALB: D:G: PR: REGN: AB HOHENL: ET WALDENB: D: IN LANGENBURG. DEO PATRIÆ NON NOBIS I. L. ŒXLEIN f. |
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Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schilingsfürst was among the smallest of the imperial counties of the Holy Roman Empire, with a population and tax base to match. That a full thaler was struck here in 1757 — the second year of the Seven Years' War, when silver was under enormous pressure across the German states — says more about dynastic prestige than fiscal necessity. These minor territorial thalers were minted largely to assert comital dignity within the imperial hierarchy, not to facilitate trade.
The Davenport listing under GT II rather than the main sequence places it firmly among the lesser German territorial issues, a category where surviving populations are small and auction appearances infrequent.