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1 Thaler - Ernest Louis Rother Gottesgabe Ausbeute
| Issuer | Hesse-Darmstadt |
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| Year | 1696 |
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| Value | 1 Thaler |
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| Obverse description | Two miners in working attire flank and support an elaborate baroque cartouche bearing the seven-fold arms of Hesse, rendered with heraldic precision. A radiant sun emerges from clouds in the upper field, casting symbolic light over the composition. The Roman numeral date MDCXCVI is inscribed below the cartouche in the lower field. The peripheral legend in Latin and German encircles the entire design, reading as an invocation of divine blessing upon the house of Hesse-Darmstadt. The overall style is characteristic of late 17th-century German mining thaler engraving, combining religious symbolism with dynastic heraldry. |
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| Edge | Lettered: SOLCHE º . |
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Ernest Louis inherited the Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt in 1678 at age nine, governing under regency until 1693. The "Rother Gottesgabe" — Red Gift of God — was a copper-bearing silver vein worked in the Hessian mining district, and Ausbeute thalers of this type were struck directly from ore yields as a form of dividend paid to the mine's noble shareholders. The practice was as much political theater as finance: presenting bullion as coinage demonstrated active lordship over territorial resources.
Müseler records only a handful of die-documented survivors for this specific 1696 emission.