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1 Thaler - Christian August
| Issuer | Bishopric of Lübeck |
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| Year | 1724 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Armored and draped bust of Bishop Christian August facing right, wearing a long flowing allonge wig rendered in fine detail, with episcopal armor visible at the truncation. The effigy is boldly struck in high relief against a smooth field. The circumferential Latin legend runs along the inner border of the reeded edge, reading CHRISTIAN • AVG • D • G • EL • EP • LVB • H • N • DVX • S • ET • H •, abbreviating his full titles as elected Bishop of Lübeck and Duke of Schleswig-Holstein. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Christian August of Holstein-Gottorp held the Bishopric of Lübeck as a Protestant administrator — the see had been secularized in all but name since the Peace of Westphalia in 1648, functioning as a territorial possession of the Holstein-Gottorp dynasty rather than an ecclesiastical office with any genuine church authority. His tenure lasted from 1705 until his death in 1726, and thaler-sized silver issues from his administration are scarce, reflecting the modest fiscal apparatus of a small north German territory issuing prestige coinage more for dynastic display than commercial circulation.