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1 Thaler - Christian
| Issuer | Brandenburg-Bayreuth, Margraviate of |
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| Year | 1621 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Armored bust of Margrave Christian right, with a small shield of arms positioned below the bust truncation and the mint official's initials beneath it. The date 1621 is incorporated into the circular legend, punctuated and divided at the end of the inscription. The legend encircles the effigy in Latin script, identifying the ruler by name and title. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Brandenburg-Bayreuth entered 1621 in the opening spiral of the Thirty Years' War, with Margrave Christian pressing coins partly to fund military obligations under the Protestant Union. The Kipper und Wipperzeit — the currency debasement crisis that swept the Empire between roughly 1619 and 1623 — was already degrading smaller denominations across the region, making full-weight taler issues like this one increasingly anomalous against a backdrop of clipped and underweight coinage flooding local markets.
Davenport's ST#6260 designation places this among the supplementary taler listings, reflecting the relatively limited documentation of Christian's coinage compared to larger Brandenburg lines.