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1 Thaler - Charles Louis Vikariatstaler
| Issuer | Palatinate |
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| Year | 1657 |
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| Currency | Thaler |
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| Obverse description | Nine-line Latin inscription filling the entire field, reading CAROLVS · LVDOVICVS·D·G / COMES PALATRHENI / S·ROM·IMP·ARCHITHES / ET·ELECTOR·IN·PART / RHENI·SVEV·ET·IVR· / FRANC·PROVISOR / ET·VICARIVS· / BAVAR·DVX·, with the date 1657 in the lower exergue. The inscription records Charles Louis's full titles as Count Palatine of the Rhine, Elector, and Imperial Vicar. A decorative floral or foliate ornament appears at the top of the field above the text. The lettering is neatly arranged in a bold Roman capital style with separating dots, and the coin features a prominent milled edge border. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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The Vikariatstaler is among the more politically loaded coin types of the Holy Roman Empire — struck not by an emperor but by those princes who claimed the right to govern in the interregnum between an emperor's death and his successor's coronation. The Rhenish Palatinate held this vicarial authority over the Burgundian and Rhenish territories, and Charles Louis — restored to the electoral dignity by the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 after his family had been stripped of it during the Thirty Years' War — was emphatic about exercising every privilege that restoration entailed.
The 1657 issue marks the interregnum following Ferdinand III's death in April of that year, before Leopold I's election in July 1658.