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1 Thaler - Frederick William Victory
| Issuer | Brandenburg-Prussia, State of |
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| Year | 1675 |
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| Currency | Thaler (1618-1701) |
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| Obverse description | Equestrian portrait of Elector Frederick William on a rearing horse leaping to the right, his sword raised in command. Below the horse, a detailed battlefield scene is depicted in the exergue area, featuring three cannons firing to the right and infantry troops crossing a bridge. A ribbon bearing the commemorative legend arches above the central composition, rendered in high relief in the baroque style. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Struck to commemorate the Battle of Fehrbellin in June 1675, where Frederick William, the Great Elector, routed a Swedish force roughly twice the size of his own Brandenburg army — a victory that established the Hohenzollern state as a serious military power in northern Europe. Sweden had invaded Brandenburg while Frederick William was occupied fighting the French in the Rhine campaign; he force-marched his army over 150 miles in under two weeks to meet them.
The Swedish commander Wolmar von Schlippenbach was captured at Fehrbellin. Frederick William never received the territorial gains the victory deserved — French diplomatic pressure at the 1679 Peace of Saint-Germain-en-Laye forced him to return his Swedish conquests.