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1 Thaler - Henry of Bobenhausen
| Issuer | Teutonic Order |
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| Year | 1575 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Reverse description | Central type depicts a standing frontal figure of the Virgin Mary, crowned and nimbed with radiating rays of glory, holding the Christ Child on her left arm. The Virgin is robed in flowing drapery and stands on a crescent or base, presented in the devotional Madonna-and-Child style traditional to Teutonic Order coinage. Alternating rays and wavy lines fill the inner field, creating a mandorla-like aureole around the figure. The surrounding Latin legend, running along the inner border between beaded circles, identifies the issuer as the Teutonic Order's master in Prussia and Livonia. The reverse displays the finely detailed craftsmanship typical of Königsberg mint production of this period. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Henry of Bobenhausen served as Grand Master of the Teutonic Order from 1572 to 1590, administering what had become a drastically diminished institution — by 1575, the Order's Prussian heartland had been secularized for nearly fifty years, following Albert of Brandenburg-Ansbach's conversion and the establishment of ducal Prussia in 1525. The Order retained its Mergentheim base in Franconia and nominal authority, but this thaler is essentially the coinage of a landlocked administrative remnant issuing money on the weight standard of an empire it could no longer meaningfully influence.