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1 Thaler - Leopold V Siege coinage
| Issuer | Upper Alsace, Landgraviate of |
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| Year | 1632-1633 |
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| Weight | 27.68 g |
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| Reverse description | Crowned complex coat of arms featuring a central escutcheon bearing the arms of Upper Alsace, set within a larger manifold quartered shield. The collar of the Order of the Golden Fleece hangs below the central arms, encircling the composite achievement. Two small subsidiary shields, bearing the arms of Habsburg and Ferrette respectively, are placed at either side of the main arms. The entire heraldic composition is surmounted by an archducal crown. The abbreviated Latin legend is distributed around the field, and the strike shares the same crude, emergency quality as the obverse. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Breisach am Rhein held out against Bernard of Saxe-Weimar's forces through a brutal siege that lasted from August 1638 to December 1638 — but the numismatic record complicates that neat narrative. Siege coinage attributed to Leopold V and dated 1632–1633 reflects an earlier phase of the Thirty Years' War, when the town faced Swedish-aligned pressure before the later, more famous Bernhardine siege finally starved the garrison into surrender. Emergency issues like this were struck from whatever silver the besieged authority could commandeer, which explains the weight variance seen across surviving specimens.