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1 Thaler - Louis II
| Issuer | Königstein, Counts of |
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| Year | 1569 |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Obverse description | Seven-fold quartered shield of arms occupying the central field, incorporating the heraldic devices of the County of Königstein and associated territories, with the last two digits of the date (69) flanking the lower portion of the shield. A circular Latin legend surrounds the arms, bearing the abbreviated titles and name of Ludwig II (Ludovicus II), Count of Stolberg, Königstein, Rochefort, Wernigerode, and Hohnstein. The entire design is contained within a beaded inner border, conforming to the hexagonal flan. |
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| Reverse description | Crowned double-headed imperial eagle displayed in the central field, with a globus cruciger (orb) on the breast, rendered in the bold hammered style characteristic of mid-sixteenth-century German Thalers. A circular Latin legend surrounds the eagle bearing the abbreviated titles of Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian II. The design is enclosed within a beaded border that follows the hexagonal shape of the flan, with the imperial crown prominently positioned above the eagle's two heads. |
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Königstein's comital line died out in 1581 when Philip II of Stolberg-Königstein died without heirs, ending independent coinage from the county entirely. This 1569 thaler was struck just over a decade before that extinction, making surviving pieces from Louis II's tenure documents of a jurisdiction on its way out. Davenport's attribution places it firmly within the broader Rhenish thaler tradition, but Königstein's output was always modest — the county's mining and minting rights were more symbolic assertion than economic engine.