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1 Thaler Gold pattern strike
| Issuer | Freiburg, City of |
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| Year | 1739 |
| Type | Coin pattern |
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| Reverse description | Full-length standing figures of the two patron saints of Freiburg, Saint Lambert on the left vested in pontifical robes and mitre, holding a crozier and resting his hand upon an heraldic shield, and Saint Alexander on the right clad in Roman military armor, holding a palm frond and sword with a shield at his side. The date 1739 appears in the upper field between the saints. The encircling legend reads S. LAMBERVTS – S. ALEXANDER, and the lower inscription in three lines identifies them as PROTECTORES CIVIT: FRIBVRG BRISG:, all separated by decorative stops in baroque style. |
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| Reverse lettering | S. LAMBERVTS - S. ALEXANDER PROTECTORES CIVIT: FRIBVRG BRISG: |
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Freiburg im Breisgau sat under Habsburg administration throughout the eighteenth century, and civic pattern strikes of this kind were typically produced as presentation pieces for imperial officials or as gifts exchanged during formal municipal negotiations — not for circulation. The 1739 date places this squarely in the reign of Charles VI, the final years before the succession crisis that triggered the War of the Austrian Succession.
At 23.28 g in .986 fine gold, the working dies were almost certainly adapted from the silver thaler production of the same year, making the Fr#1029a designation the critical reference for distinguishing it from any later restrike.