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1 Thaler - Louis I Death of Amoena Amalia
| Issuer | Anhalt-Köthen |
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| Year | 1625 |
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| Value | 1 Thaler |
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| Obverse lettering | ✿Das·Weib.so.fürchtet.Gott.nicht.kan.zu.spot |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Amoena Amalia of Anhalt was the daughter of Prince Johann Georg I of Anhalt-Dessau and died in 1625 at the age of just eleven. Funeral thalers for children of ruling houses were a distinct and grim genre of early seventeenth-century German coinage — political grief made tangible in silver, distributed to mourners and dynastic allies as material evidence of a line's losses.
Anhalt-Köthen was under Calvinist rule at the time, which adds an unusual dimension: Reformed theology generally discouraged elaborate funerary ritual, yet the memorial thaler tradition persisted here regardless.