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1 Thaler - Charles Otto
| Issuer | Solms-Laubach, County of |
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| Year | 1770 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Reverse description | Central design featuring a stepped pyramid or obelisk construction inscribed with a multi-line Latin commemorative text, surmounted by a laurel wreath. The inscription on the pyramid records the dedication to the patriarchal line of Laubach and the birth and death dates of Count Otto (born 1 May 1469, died 14 May 1522). Below the pyramid in the exergue appear the denomination and the mintmaster's initials. The overall composition is a memorial-type reverse commemorating the ancestral founder of the Solms-Laubach line. |
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| Edge | Lettered |
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Solms-Laubach was a tiny Imperial County in Hesse whose ruling house had long outlived any meaningful political weight by 1770, yet retained the minting privilege — a right increasingly resented by larger neighbors and the Imperial administration alike. Charles Otto, the reigning count, exercised that privilege sparingly. This thaler is among the last substantive silver issues the county would produce before minting activity effectively ceased, a consequence of both diminishing revenues and the broader suppression of small-state coinage rights that accelerated through the latter eighteenth century.