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1 Thaler - John Frederick
| Issuer | Brandenburg-Ansbach, Margraviate of |
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| Year | 1679 |
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| Currency | Thaler |
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| Obverse description | Central shield bearing the elaborate fifteen-fold arms of Brandenburg-Ansbach, surmounted by multiple crowned helmets with elaborate mantling and heraldic supporters including eagles and lions. The date 1679 is divided at the base of the shield within the legend. The circular Latin legend runs along the coin's periphery, identifying the issuer by name and title. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Brandenburg-Ansbach in 1679 was governed by John Frederick, who had assumed the margraviate in 1667 after a prolonged dynastic dispute with his brothers. The Hohenzollern territories in Franconia were chronically fragmented through this period, and the right to strike thalers — a privilege requiring imperial authorization — was exercised here with deliberate political weight, affirming sovereign status within the Holy Roman Empire at a moment when Ansbach's standing remained contested among the junior Hohenzollern lines.
ST#6242 distinguishes this from related Ansbach thaler types of the same reign, several of which share obverse dies but differ in reverse arrangement and mintmaster marks.