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1 Thaler - Jakob III of Eltz
| Issuer | Archbishopric of Trier |
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| Year | 1570 |
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| Weight | 28.91 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Elaborate quartered arms of the Archbishopric of Trier, comprising the cross of Trier and the lion of the Electorate, surmounted by an ornate electoral hat above a baroque helm and mantling richly adorned with foliate and floral scrollwork. A small shield at the top of the achievement bears an eagle. The circular legend MONETA. NOV. ARG. CONFLV. (Nova Moneta Argentea Confluentia — New Silver Coin of Koblenz) runs along the periphery. The entire design is enclosed within a rope-pattern inner border and a beaded outer rim. |
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Jakob III von Eltz served as Archbishop of Trier from 1567 until his death in 1581, navigating the Archbishopric through the early pressures of the Counter-Reformation with considerably more pragmatism than many of his contemporaries. Trier held the distinction of being one of the seven Electoral principalities of the Holy Roman Empire, which gave its archbishops both the ecclesiastical authority to issue coinage and the political weight to matter at imperial elections — a combination that made the thaler series of each archbishop a document of dynastic ambition as much as monetary necessity.
The Davenport reference GT I#9915 places this firmly within the German Taler series, cross-referenced by Schröttер#29.