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1 Thaler - Charles I
| Issuer | Isenburg |
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| Year | 1811 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Bare-headed effigy of Carl (Charles I), Prince of Isenburg, in high-relief left-facing profile bust, with finely detailed curly hair rendered in a Neoclassical style. The truncation is plain and cleanly cut. The peripheral legend reads CARL FÜRST ZU ISENBURG, distributed around the field in upright Latin lettering. The entire design is contained within a finely milled border of raised beads. |
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| Edge | Smooth |
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Isenburg's existence as a sovereign state was already precarious by 1811 — the Confederation of the Rhine had propped up the mediatized house under Charles I, but Napoleonic reorganization of German territories was constantly reshuffling borders and titles. The principality was dissolved entirely in 1806 and reconstituted, leaving its coinage history fragmentary and its thalers struck in small numbers across a compressed window of legitimate authority.
The Dav. 723 attribution places this among the rarest thaler-sized pieces from the Rhine Confederation period. Fewer than a handful of die marriages are documented for the type.