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1 Thaler - Ernest III

Issuer Holstein-Schaumburg-Pinneberg, County of
Year 1608-1613
Type Standard circulation coin
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Reverse lettering RVDOL. II. D. G. ROMA. - IMPER: SEMPER: AVG.
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Ernest III ruled the rump territory of Holstein-Schaumburg-Pinneberg during a period when the county was already in its terminal political decline, squeezed between the ambitions of Hesse-Kassel and the Holstein-Gottorf line. His thalers from this window were struck at the Altona or Pinneberg mint and draw collector attention almost entirely because of the county's extinction — the line died out with Ernst's son Philip in 1626, after which the territory was absorbed by Hesse-Kassel. Survivors from short-lived dynastic issues like this rarely circulated far from their point of origin, which partly explains the frequency of higher-grade examples relative to mintage.

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