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1 Thaler Klippe
| Issuer | Cologne, City of |
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| Year | 1577-1587 |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | 1577 - - 1581 - - 1585 - - 1587 - - |
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Cologne struck klippe thalers during this decade under severe municipal strain — the city was navigating the fallout from the Cologne War, a conflict triggered when Archbishop Gebhard Truchsess von Waldburg converted to Protestantism in 1582 and attempted to secularize the electorate. The square format was not decorative whimsy; klippe issues frequently served ceremonial or donative functions, and a city defending its Catholic imperial status had reason to make its coinage conspicuous.
The Davenport reference places this among a tightly documented group of Rhenish civic issues rarely encountered outside German auction houses.