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1 Thaler - Frederick Christoph Death
| Issuer | Mansfeld-Hinterort, County of |
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| Year | 1631 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Reverse description | An armored equestrian figure of Friedrich Christoph depicted in full gallop to the right, seated upon a rearing horse with detailed musculature and flowing mane. The rider bears a baton or sword, rendered in the dynamic style characteristic of early seventeenth-century German memorial coinage. A continuous Latin commemorative legend encircles the composition, and the date 1631 appears within the field or exergue, marking the year of the count's death. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Frederick Christoph, Count of Mansfeld-Hinterort, died in 1631 — the same year the Thirty Years' War consumed the surrounding Saxon territories in some of its worst violence. Mansfeld itself had already been devastated; the county's mining operations, the economic foundation of the entire Mansfeld coinage tradition, were in serious decline. Death thalers of this type were struck as memorial issues rather than circulating currency, typically distributed among family and court.
Tornau 1344d indicates a specific die variant within what is a small surviving population for this branch of the Mansfeld comital family.