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1 Thaler - Lothair of Metternich
| Issuer | Archbishopric of Trier |
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| Year | 1600 |
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| Value | 1 Thaler |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | MONE NO ARGE CONFLV 1600 |
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Lothair of Metternich served as Archbishop of Trier from 1599 until his death in 1623, and this thaler — struck in the first year of his tenure — coincides with his efforts to consolidate ecclesiastical authority during the early confessional tensions that would eventually ignite the Thirty Years' War. Trier occupied an acutely exposed position: a Catholic prince-bishopric wedged between Protestant territories and subject to constant political pressure from both the Habsburgs and the French crown.
The Davenport reference CCT#5863 places this piece within the broader corpus of Circle Thaler coinage governed by the Reichsmünzordnung standards of the late sixteenth century.