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1 Thaler - Ernest III
| Issuer | Holstein-Schaumburg-Pinneberg, County of |
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| Year | 1610 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#61, Weinm#120 |
| Obverse description | Central composite shield displaying a four-fold coat of arms with a smaller central escutcheon, surmounted by three ornate crested helmets with elaborate mantling. The date 1610 is divided among the helmets in the upper field. A continuous Latin legend runs along the outer border identifying the issuing count. |
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| Obverse lettering | ERNESTUS. D. G. HOL. SC. E. S. CO. D. GE. |
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Holstein-Schaumburg-Pinneberg was a minor comital territory caught between larger German powers, and by 1610 Ernest III was ruling a county already deep in the financial and political fractures that would soon detonate into the Thirty Years' War. Thalers from this county are scarce simply because the territory was small and its minting activity sporadic — this is not a high-volume issue from a major mint city but a product of comital ambition, the kind of prestige coinage that small rulers struck partly to assert parity with their betters.
The county itself was absorbed into Hesse-Kassel in 1640, ending the line entirely. Weinmeister 120 is the standard reference attribution for this specific emission.