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1 Thaler - David
| Issuer | County of Mansfeld |
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| Year | 1609 |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Obverse lettering | DAVD CO E DO I MANSF NO D I HEL E SCHRAPL |
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| Mintage | 1609 - Dated 1609 but minted around 1800. |
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The Mansfeld thalers of the early seventeenth century reflect the administrative chaos of a county divided among so many co-ruling counts that mint rights became almost impossible to police. By 1609, the various Mansfeld lines — long exhausted by partition inheritance — were issuing coinage under individual names partly as a assertion of personal authority within a shrinking domain. The county's silver came from its own Harz-region mines, which were in serious decline by this date, making later Mansfeld issues progressively harder to finance.
The "David" designation identifies the specific count, David of Mansfeld-Hinterort, one of several simultaneous rulers signing off on independent emissions from the same mint.