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1 Thaler - Frederick IV
| Issuer | Palatinate |
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| Year | 1608 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Two ornate heraldic shields — the Palatinate lion rampant to the left and the lozengy arms of Bavaria to the right — joined at their bases and surmounted by a princely electoral crown, with an imperial orb displayed below at the point of junction. The date 1608 is divided by the shields, with '16' to the left and '08' to the right. A circular legend in German script surrounds the central device within a beaded border, reading: DEIN VVORT REGIER MICH HERNACH. |
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Frederick IV of the Palatinate was the Protestant Union's founding elector — the alliance formed in 1608 among Calvinist and Lutheran princes as a direct counter to Catholic Habsburg consolidation in the Empire. This thaler was struck in the very year of that founding, making it a product of one of the tensest moments in pre-Thirty Years' War German politics. Frederick died in 1610, leaving the Palatinate to his nine-year-old son, whose subsequent acceptance of the Bohemian crown would ignite the war his father had spent his reign trying to prevent.