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1 Thaler - John Reinhard
| Issuer | Hanau-Lichtenberg, County of |
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| Year | 1609 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Reverse description | Quartered heraldic shield displaying the arms of Hanau-Lichtenberg: upper left quarter bears a rampant lion, upper right quarter bears a rampant lion, lower left quarter bears a plain shield shape, and lower center features an escutcheon with a chevron; the date 16-09 is divided across the left and right sides of the shield. Horizontal barry lines occupy the lower right quarter. The shield is set within the field, surrounded by a Latin circular legend within a beaded border. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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John Reinhard I ruled Hanau-Lichtenberg from 1599 until his death in 1625, a period during which the county sat uncomfortably between French and German political pressures along the Rhine. This thaler was struck just a decade before the Thirty Years' War engulfed the region — Hanau-Lichtenberg would suffer repeated occupation and contribution demands before the conflict ended. The county's Reformed Protestant confession made alliances brittle and enemies plentiful.
Suchier's reference remains the authoritative die study for Hanau-Lichtenberg thalers, and the E&L#49 citation places this squarely within the Engel and Lehr corpus for Alsatian coinage.