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1 Thaler - Gebhard VII, John George I and Peter Ernest I
| Issuer | Mansfeld-Schraplau, County of |
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| Year | 1555 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Two adjacent heraldic shields displayed side by side, the dexter bearing the old Mansfeld arms and the sinister the new Mansfeld arms, each surmounted by an ornate crested helm with elaborate mantling. The date appears in the lower field beneath the shields. A Latin legend surrounds the entire composition within a beaded border, identifying the coin as a new silver monetary issue of the County of Mansfeld. |
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Mansfeld's silver production in the mid-sixteenth century was inseparable from its copper mines — among the most productive in the Holy Roman Empire — which generated the capital and political leverage that allowed the county's perpetually fractious ruling families to mint at scale. This piece was struck during a period of joint rule by three counts simultaneously, a governing arrangement born of inheritance disputes rather than cooperation, and the county would formally partition within decades. The Tornau reference places it among a well-documented but genuinely scarce group of collaborative issues from Schraplau.