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1 Thaler - Günther XLI and John Günther
| Issuer | Schwarzburg, County of |
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| Year | 1564-1570 |
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| Value | 1 Thaler |
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| Obverse lettering | GVNT. HA. GV. I. SCW(I). D. I. AR. SVN. |
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| Reverse lettering | MAXIMILIA(N). II. D. G. (R). IM(P). S(EM). AV(G). (P) FF. DE. |
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Günther XLI and John Günther ruled Schwarzburg jointly under the co-regency arrangements that defined small German territorial governance throughout the sixteenth century — a practical necessity born from inheritance laws that resisted primogeniture. Schwarzburg's thalers from this window were struck at a moment when the county was consolidating Protestant reforms under Lutheran influence, a process that reshaped administrative priorities and patronage across the Thuringian holdings.
Davenport's attribution GT I#9834 places this firmly within the broader Schwarzburg thaler sequence, though die marriages within the 1564–1570 span remain incompletely catalogued. MB#24 examples surface rarely enough that auction appearances tend to anchor current pricing for the type.