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1 Thaler - John Hugo of Orsbeck
| Issuer | Archbishopric of Trier |
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| Year | 1681 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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John Hugo of Orsbeck governed the Archbishopric of Trier for over three decades, and his thalers reflect the ambitions of a prince-bishop who spent much of his tenure rebuilding ecclesiastical authority after the devastation of the Thirty Years' War and its long economic aftermath. Trier had been occupied multiple times by French forces during the 1630s and 1640s, and coinage reform was part of a broader effort to reassert the electorate's standing.
The Davenport reference CCT#5901 places this among a well-documented sequence of Orsbeck thalers struck across his reign — differences in die details and mintmaster marks distinguish the annual issues, and Schroetter 611 is specific to the 1681 emission.