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1 Thaler - Five Brothers
| Issuer | Saxe-Weimar, Duchy of |
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| Year | 1623 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#84, Dav ST#7532, Schnee#353, KoppeSW#220 |
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| Reverse description | Large, elaborately quartered coat of arms of the Duchy of Saxe-Weimar, surmounted by multiple crested helmets with ornate mantling, displaying the combined armorial bearings of the five brother-dukes of the Ernestine line. The mintmaster's initials G and A appear divided at the lower left and right of the shield respectively. The surrounding German legend NACH DEM ALTEN SCHROT VND KORN, separated by pellets, runs along the dentilated rim. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Issued to commemorate the joint rule of the five sons of Johann of Saxe-Weimar — Johann Ernst, Friedrich, Wilhelm, Albrecht, and Ernst — this thaler appeared just as the Thirty Years' War was tearing through the German states. The brothers had formally divided governance of the duchy in 1620, an arrangement that produced a flurry of multi-portrait coinage unique to the Ernestine Saxon tradition of collective dynastic display.
Johann Ernst II would die campaigning under Christian of Brunswick in 1626, making this among the last issues to depict all five brothers living.