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1 Thaler - Francis of Ketteler
| Uitgever | Abbey of Corvey |
|---|---|
| Jaar | 1543-1544 |
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| Waarde | 1 Thaler |
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| Beschrijving voorzijde | Quartered shield of arms occupying the central field, the upper-right and lower-left quarters each bearing a diagonal band accompanied by a small escutcheon charged with a stylised device, the whole surmounted by an ornate scroll-work crest. The date 1543 appears above the shield within the inner circle. The circumferential legend in Gothic-influenced Latin characters reads FRANCISC9 D G ABBAS CORBEIE, separated by small star stops, running clockwise around the coin. |
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| Opschrift voorzijde | Log in om details te zien |
| Beschrijving keerzijde | Full-length standing figure of a barefoot saint, rendered in the late-Gothic manner, robed in a long habit and mantle, holding a palm frond in the right hand and a small eagle or bird attribute in the left. The letters S and V flank the figure in the field to left and right respectively. The circumferential legend MONETA NOV CIVITA HOXER S V runs clockwise around the border, separated by small star stops, identifying this as the new coinage of the city of Höxter. |
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| Opschrift keerzijde | Log in om details te zien |
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| Aanvullende informatie |
Corvey, originally founded as a Carolingian Benedictine house in 822, had by the sixteenth century accumulated enough secular authority to strike its own coinage — a privilege that put it in direct tension with the surrounding Prince-Bishopric of Paderborn. Francis of Ketteler served as Prince-Abbot during a period when the Reformation was fracturing ecclesiastical power across Westphalia, and minting a thaler of this weight and ambition was partly a political assertion of continued Catholic institutional standing.
The 1543–1544 double dating reflects production that straddled the new year under the old calendar reckoning still common in Imperial mints at the time.