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1 Thaler - Günther XLI and John Günther

Issuer Schwarzburg, County of
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.

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