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1 Thaler - George William
| Issuer | Brandenburg-Prussia, State of |
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| Year | 1635-1639 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Reverse description | Large multi-quartered coat of arms of the Brandenburg-Hohenzollern dynasty, surmounted by an electoral crown, displaying the heraldic emblems of the various territories held by the Elector, including the Brandenburgian eagle, the Prussian eagle, and other dynastic quarterings. The shield is ornately framed and fills the majority of the reverse field. The mint-master's initials DK (for Daniel Kastenholz) appear within the field flanking the shield. The circular Latin legend surrounding the arms reads MONITA NOVA ARGENTEA DVCIS PRVSSIÆ DK, translating as 'New silver coinage of the Duke of Prussia,' with the date partially visible at the top of the coin above the crown. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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George William's final years as Elector were among the most catastrophic in Brandenburg's history — his indecision during the Thirty Years' War left his territories repeatedly occupied, looted, and depopulated by both Swedish and Imperial forces. These thalers were struck during that terminal phase of his reign, when the Brandenburg mint was functioning under conditions of near-constant military disruption. That the Marienburg collection catalogued a specimen at all speaks to how few survived institutional dispersal.
The Dav ST#6151 attribution places this within the Stolberg die study, a useful anchor given the overlapping emission dates and the difficulty of pinning individual strikes to a single mint year within the 1635–1639 window.