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1 Thaler - Charles August
| Issuer | County of Hohenlohe-Kirchberg |
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| Year | 1738 |
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| Currency | Thaler |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The elaborately quartered coat of arms of the House of Hohenlohe-Kirchberg occupies the central field, displayed on a baroque cartouche with richly engraved foliate and scroll mantling. The shield is surmounted by a crowned helm bearing a double-headed eagle as crest, flanked by two additional helmets with their respective crests. The date 1738 appears in the lower exergue, separated by a small ornamental device, with the Latin motto legend surrounding the design along the inner border. |
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Hohenlohe-Kirchberg was among the smallest and most financially marginal of the German imperial counties, with taxable territory so limited that thaler-denomination coinage was more a demonstration of sovereign coining rights than any practical monetary necessity. Charles August ruled from 1715 to 1756, and the 1738 thaler falls near the midpoint of a reign defined largely by the effort to maintain the trappings of independent statehood within the Holy Roman Empire's increasingly crowded numismatic landscape — each petty count jealously exercising mint privileges as proof of standing. Davenport's listing under GT II confirms the type within the broader German thaler series, but surviving examples surface rarely at auction, a direct consequence of the county's negligible population and circulation area.