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1 Thaler - Francis

Uitgever Abbeys of Werden and Helmstedt
Jaar 1765
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Beschrijving voorzijde Central field dominated by a large quartered coat of arms surmounted by an abbatial mitre, flanked on either side by the wings of a double-headed imperial eagle, each head crowned, with supporting mantling and decorative scrollwork. The shield displays the combined armorial bearings of the Abbeys of Werden and Helmstedt, incorporating crossed keys, a sun, and other heraldic charges across four quarters. The date 1765 appears in the upper portion of the legend, which encircles the design within a beaded border. The composition is rendered in a bold Baroque engraving style characteristic of late Holy Roman Empire ecclesiastical coinage.
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Werden and Helmstedt were Benedictine imperial abbeys in the Holy Roman Empire, each holding the status of an immediate lordship — answerable to the Emperor alone, not to any intervening secular prince. Their joint coinage issues, of which this thaler is among the later examples, reflect an administrative union that was more fiscal convenience than spiritual solidarity. Francis II of Werden (not to be confused with the later Emperor) presided over an institution already in slow institutional decline well before secularization finally dissolved both abbeys under Napoleonic reorganization in 1803.

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