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1 Thaler - Christian
| Issuer | Brandenburg-Bayreuth, Margraviate of |
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| Year | 1623 |
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| Weight | 28.82 g |
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| Obverse lettering | ✤CHRISTIANVS:D:G:MARCHIO:BRANDEN:PRUSSIÆ∴ |
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| Reverse lettering | ♁STE:POM:CAS:UAN:CRO:IAG:DUX:BVR:I:NVR:PR:RV: 16 23 C O |
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Christian of Brandenburg-Bayreuth inherited the margraviate in 1603 at age eleven and spent much of his reign navigating the catastrophic early decades of the Thirty Years' War, which had erupted just five years before this thaler was struck. Franconian territories were among the first to suffer troop movements and forced requisitions, making silver coinage both politically necessary and logistically difficult to sustain.
The 1623 date places this issue squarely within the Kipper und Wipper crisis — the debasement epidemic that had flooded the Holy Roman Empire with debased small coinage between roughly 1619 and 1623. Full-weight thalers from this moment were explicitly instruments of financial credibility.