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1 Thaler - John George I, Peter Ernest I and John Hoyer III
| Issuer | Mansfeld-Eisleben, County of |
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| Year | 1573-1578 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Central field displays the ornate quartered shield of the new Mansfeld arms, surmounted by a small imperial orb at the commencement of the circumferential legend. The date appears above the shield. The surrounding Latin legend names the three co-ruling counts: Johann Georg I, Peter Ernst I, and Johann Hoyer III, rendered in abbreviated form. The overall composition is characteristic of late sixteenth-century German territorial thaler coinage, with bold heraldic relief and toothed border. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Mansfeld's joint-rule coinages reflect the county's chronic inability to consolidate authority — the three counts named here governed simultaneously under a partition arrangement that plagued the Mansfeld dynasty for generations, dividing revenues, mines, and minting rights among competing branches. The famous copper mines around Eisleben funded these issues, but the same wealth that made Mansfeld coinage possible also financed the family's perpetual litigation before the Imperial Chamber Court, which ultimately declared the county bankrupt in 1594.
Davenport's GT I attribution places this squarely within the broader German Taler series, but the three-count joint issues span a narrow enough window that die combinations vary considerably across the Tornau sequence.