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1 Thaler - Christian August Marriage
| Issuer | Solms-Laubach, County of |
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| Year | 1738 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of Count Christian August of Solms-Laubach facing right, with long curled hair tied at the back with a ribbon bow, wearing armor with a lace cravat at the neck. The portrait is rendered in high relief in the Baroque style. A circular Latin legend surrounds the effigy reading CHRISTIAN AVGVST GRAF ZV SOLMS LAVBACH, with the abbreviated titles continuing around the lower field and concluding with VERMAEHLT MIT. |
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| Obverse lettering | CHRISTIAN AVGVST GRAF ZV SOLMS LAVBACH V T H Z M W & S VERMAEHLT MIT |
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Christian August, Count of Solms-Laubach, married Johanna Eleonora of Solms-Rödelheim in 1738. Marriage thalers from the smaller German counties were struck in deliberately limited quantities — part gift, part dynastic announcement — and Solms-Laubach, a county of negligible political weight within the Holy Roman Empire, would have had little cause or means to produce these in volume. Most examples passed directly into family collections rather than trade circulation, which accounts for the survival of specimens in comparatively sound condition.