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1 Thaler - Johann Ehrenreich Bronze Trial Strike
| Issuer | Counts of Sprinzenstein (Austrian States) |
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| Year | 1717 |
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| Value | 1 Thaler |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | IOAN · ERNRICUS S · R · I C · & DOM · DE · ET IN SPRINZENSTEIN ET NEUHAUS (Translation: John Ehrenreich, Holy Roman Empire count and lord of and in Sprinzenstein and Neuhaus.) |
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Johann Ehrenreich von Sprinzenstein held the county as a minor Imperial holding in Upper Austria, and trial strikes of this kind were almost never authorized for broad circulation — they exist because a die sinker needed approval, a patron wanted a presentation piece, or a mint official kept one for his own cabinet. Bronze trials of silver thalers are survivorship oddities: produced in negligible numbers, frequently not recorded in contemporary mint accounts, and preserved almost entirely through aristocratic collections rather than commerce.
The Sprinzenstein thaler series is poorly documented in the standard Davenport references, which makes die-specific attribution difficult without direct comparison to confirmed examples.