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1 Thaler - John Frederick
| Issuer | Pomerania-Stettin, Duchy of |
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| Year | 1595 |
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| Value | 1 Thaler |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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John Frederick ruled Pomerania-Stettin as the last of his direct line, and his reign coincided with the slow-motion dynastic crisis that would eventually extinguish the House of Pomerania entirely in 1637. This thaler was struck amid ongoing tension with Brandenburg, whose Hohenzollern rulers were already maneuvering to claim the Pomeranian succession — a claim they would not collect for another four decades. Davenport's attribution to GT I#9675 places it firmly within the broader series of Pomeranian portrait thalers from the 1590s, a period of relatively stable output from the Stettin mint before the disruptions of the Thirty Years' War.