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1 Thaler - Joachim Ernest
| Issuer | Brandenburg-Ansbach, Margraviate of |
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| Year | 1623 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Armored three-quarter bust of Margrave Joachim Ernest facing right, depicted in elaborately engraved plate armor with a ruffled lace collar, holding a marshal's baton in his right hand. The hair is curled and the figure displays the dignified bearing befitting a ruling margrave of the early Baroque period. The heraldic arms of Brandenburg-Ansbach appear below the bust in the lower field. A beaded inner border frames the effigy, with the Latin legend distributed around the periphery. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Joachim Ernest ruled Brandenburg-Ansbach from 1603 until his death in 1625, navigating the margraviate through the opening years of the Thirty Years' War with considerable difficulty. The 1623 date places this thaler squarely within the Kipper und Wipperzeit — the catastrophic debasement crisis of 1619–1623 in which dozens of German mints flooded circulation with underweight, copper-heavy coinage. Full-weight silver thalers from this precise period are relatively uncommon precisely because sound silver money was systematically hoarded or exported as debased coins drove it out of circulation.