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1 Thaler - Christian, Bischof of Halberstadt Pfaffenfeind Taler
| Uitgever | Bishopric of Halberstadt |
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| Jaar | 1622 |
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| Referentie(s) | KM#28, Dav ST#6322 |
| Beschrijving voorzijde | Within an ornate cartouche occupying the central field, a four-line inscription in German reads GOTTES / FREUNDT / DER PFAFFEN / FEINDT ('Friend of God, Enemy of Priests'), the celebrated Protestant motto of Administrator Christian of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel. The surrounding circular legend, rendered in Latin capital letters, identifies the issuer. The toothed border frames the entire composition. |
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| Opschrift voorzijde | GOTTES FREUNDT DER PFAFFEN FEINDT · CHRISTIAN HERTZ · V · BRSCHW · V · LUNENB |
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| Aanvullende informatie |
Christian of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel administered the Bishopric of Halberstadt as a Protestant administrator at a moment when the Thirty Years' War was tearing the region apart. He was so aggressively anti-Catholic that he earned the epithet "der tolle Christian" — Mad Christian — and the coin's popular name, Pfaffenfeind, translates bluntly as "enemy of priests." He is said to have melted church silver to strike his military coinage, and this thaler is widely believed to be among those issues.
Christian was defeated at the Battle of Höchst in 1622, the same year this piece was struck.