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1 Thaler - Charles William Frederick Falkentaler
| Issuer | Brandenburg-Ansbach, Margraviate of |
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| Year | 1753 |
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| Weight | 22.17 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A falconer on horseback, dressed in contemporary hunting attire, rides at a canter to the right with his right arm raised to release or receive a falcon; above in the open sky two falcons are depicted in flight. A second mounted attendant is visible in the middle distance to the right, with a town and church spire on the horizon. Hunting dogs appear in the foreground at the horse's feet, and clouds fill the sky. The Latin motto is arranged in a curved arc along the upper periphery within a raised border, referencing the princely pastime of falconry. |
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Brandenburg-Ansbach produced relatively few thalers under Charles William Frederick, whose margraviate was fiscally constrained and administratively overshadowed by the larger Hohenzollern territories. The "Falkentaler" designation refers to the falconry imagery tied to the margrave's well-documented obsession with the hunt — he maintained one of the most elaborate falconry establishments in eighteenth-century Germany, an expensive passion that strained his court's finances considerably.
The Davenport reference places this among the German Talers series, and surviving examples in collectible grades are genuinely scarce. Charles William Frederick died without legitimate issue in 1757, ending his line and passing Ansbach to a collateral Hohenzollern branch.