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1 Thaler - Joachim Ernest
| Issuer | Brandenburg-Ansbach, Margraviate of |
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| Year | 1622-1625 |
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| Currency | Thaler |
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| Obverse description | Armored bust of Margrave Joachim Ernest facing right, wearing an elaborate lace ruff collar and richly decorated cuirass. The date is divided to either side of the effigy within the field. The surrounding legend reads MARCHIO BRAN PRUSS IOACHIMVS ERNEST D G, all within a beaded border. |
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| Reverse description | Elaborately mantled and helmeted coat of arms of the Margraviate of Brandenburg-Ansbach, featuring a large quartered shield displaying the multiple territorial arms of the Hohenzollern dynasty, surmounted by several crested helmets with ornate lambrequins. The legend encircles the composition within a beaded border. |
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Joachim Ernest ruled Brandenburg-Ansbach from 1603 until his death in 1625, and these thalers were struck during the opening years of the Thirty Years' War — a conflict that would devastate the Franconian circle more thoroughly than almost any other German territory. The war brought Imperial troops, Swedish armies, and marauding mercenary bands in successive waves through Ansbach lands, disrupting mint operations and destroying much of the region's silver supply chains. That this series was maintained at all through 1625 reflects the margraviate's early insulation from the worst violence, which arrived in force only after Joachim Ernest's death.