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1 Thaler - Christoph II, John Albert I and Bruno II
| Issuer | Mansfeld-Schraplau, County of |
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| Year | 1560 |
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| Weight | 28.8 g |
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| Obverse description | Saint George depicted in full armor astride a rearing horse to the right, thrusting a lance or sword downward at a dragon prostrate beneath the horse's hooves. The central design is framed by an inner wreath border of laurel or foliage. The circular legend, reading the names of the three co-ruling counts, runs between the inner wreath and the outer beaded border, punctuated by ornamental stops. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Mansfeld-Schraplau was one of several partitioned branches of the Mansfeld comital house, a dynasty that subdivided its territories with almost pathological frequency across the sixteenth century. This thaler represents the joint rule of three brothers — Christoph II, John Albert I, and Bruno II — a co-regency arrangement that was less a political choice than an inherited obligation under Mansfeld's partition agreements. The county sat atop some of the richest copper-silver deposits in the Holy Roman Empire, and Mansfeld counts struck thalers not merely as currency but as a direct assertion of mining wealth at a moment when that wealth was already beginning to slip into debt.
By the 1560s the Mansfeld lines were borrowing heavily against future ore revenues. The silver in this coin may have come from the same mines whose proceeds were already pledged to creditors.