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1 Thaler - Christian Louis I
| Issuer | Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin |
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| Year | 1681 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Reverse lettering | IEHOVA SORS MEA 16 81 |
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| Mint | Schwerin Mint |
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Christian Louis I ruled Mecklenburg-Schwerin through one of the duchy's more precarious stretches — the region had been devastated by the Thirty Years' War only a generation earlier, and the slow reconstruction of ducal finances made large silver coinage like this thaler both a fiscal instrument and a political statement of recovered authority. The Holy Roman Empire's thaler standard at this period was governed by the Leipzig Convention of 1566, and Mecklenburg's issues adhered to that framework even as the duchy remained relatively minor among north German states.
Davenport's attribution under ST#7043 places this among the Saxon-type thalers of the period.