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1 Thaler - Christian and Wolrad IV
| Issuer | Waldeck, County of |
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| Year | 1625 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | : CHRI : ET · WOLR : FR : COM : I : WALDE: G K 16 25 (Translation: Christian and Wolrad, brothers and Counts of Waldeck) |
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Christian and Wolrad IV ruled Waldeck jointly following the county's inheritance division, a dynastic arrangement common in smaller German territories that routinely produced short-lived coinages tied to specific co-regencies. The 1625 date places this issue squarely in the opening years of what would become the most destructive conflict in German history — the Thirty Years' War — when silver coinage from minor counties was already being debased across the region by more desperate neighbors. Waldeck held out longer than most.
Davenport 7821 is a genuinely scarce attribution; surviving examples surface rarely at auction.