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1 Thaler - Henry Hermann Schutzbar
| Issuer | Dominion of Burgmilchling |
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| Year | 1605-1611 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Facing bust of Emperor Rudolf II, laureate and bearded, depicted three-quarter length in ornate armour with ruff collar, holding an imperial sceptre in his right hand. A crown is visible to the lower right of the figure, and a small floral ornament appears in the upper left field. The circular Latin legend surrounds the bust, reading RVDOLPH.II.ROM:IMP:AVGVSTVS.P.F.DECRETO., with the lettering distributed around the entire periphery within a beaded border. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Burgmilchling was a tiny Imperial dominion in Franconia whose coinage-issuing rights were exercised almost entirely during the tenure of Henry Hermann Schutzbar, a knight of the Teutonic Order who exploited the legal ambiguities of Imperial minting privileges to produce thalers well above his station. The Schutzbar family held the lordship in this period through a complex web of feudal tenure rather than outright dynastic ownership, which makes the very existence of this issue a minor constitutional curiosity of the late Holy Roman Empire.
Davenport's attribution under ST#6659 places it firmly in the category of Standesherren coinage — lordly issues struck by minor nobility clinging to privileges increasingly contested by larger territorial princes.