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1 Thaler - Louis II, Henry XXI, Albert George and Christof I
| Issuer | Stolberg, County of |
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| Year | 1562 |
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| Reference(s) | MB#54, Dav GT I#9856, Friederich#221 |
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| Obverse lettering | LUDOVICUS. HENRICUS. ALBERTUS. GEORGIUS. ET. CHRISTOPHORUS. COMITES. IN. STOLBERG. KÖNIGSTEIN. WERNINGERODE. ET. HOHENSTEIN. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Stolberg's joint-rule thalers of the sixteenth century were struck under the counts' formal co-sovereignty arrangements, a dynastic system peculiar to the Saxon-Thuringian counties where partition of territory rarely meant partition of minting rights. All four names on this coin — Louis II, Henry XXI, Albert George, and Christof I — represent simultaneous ruling counts of the house of Stolberg-Stolberg, a circumstance that made multi-name coinage administratively necessary rather than ceremonially decorative.
Davenport GT I#9856 places this among a tight cluster of Stolberg joint issues from the early 1560s, each varying in the specific combination of regnal names as counts died or came of age.