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1 Thaler - Henry III
| Issuer | Duchy of Saxe-Römhild (German States) |
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| Year | 1692 |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Obverse description | Armored bust of Duke Henry III facing right, wearing elaborately engraved plate armor and a flowing allonge wig with voluminous curls cascading to his shoulders, in the high Baroque courtly style. A ducal crown is positioned at the lower left of the field. The circumferential Latin legend reads HEINRIC D G D S I C M A ET W, abbreviating his full titles as Duke of Saxony by the Grace of God. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Saxe-Römhild was among the most short-lived of the Saxon partition duchies, created in 1680 when the Ernestine line subdivided yet again and extinguished in 1710 when Henry died without a male heir. The entire coinage of the duchy spans barely three decades, making any issue scarce by structural necessity rather than low mintage alone.
Henry III ruled a territory of negligible political weight, but imperial coinage rights required him to produce thalers regardless. The Dav. 7502 attribution places this cleanly within Davenport's German Talers series.