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1 Thaler - Louis II, Henry XXI, Albert George, Christof I, and Wolf Ernest
| Issuer | County of Stolberg |
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| Year | 1572-1573 |
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| Value | 1 Thaler |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse features a stag passant to the right, rendered in fine relief, standing upon a grassy ground within an inner beaded circle. The stag, the traditional heraldic emblem of Stolberg, is depicted with a prominent crowned rack and naturalistically engraved body. The surrounding legend in Latin, separated by stops, reads: MONETA. NOVA. ARGENTEA. COMITUM. IN. STOLBERG. KÖNIGSTEIN. WERNIGERODE. ET. HOHENSTEIN., identifying this as a new silver coin of the Counts of Stolberg. The date numerals appear within or adjacent to the inner circle at the base of the design. |
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Stolberg's thalers of the early 1570s reflect the county's unusual governance structure: the territory was ruled jointly by multiple counts from the Stolberg dynasty simultaneously, a practice of Ganerbschaft — co-inheritance — that produced coins bearing up to five co-rulers' names at once. This particular issue names all five ruling counts of the period, a bureaucratic crowding that was legally necessary under the terms of the family's inheritance arrangements.
The Dav GT I reference places this within the broader Grafschaft Stolberg series documented by Davenport, with Friedrich 257 confirming the specific die marriage. Two-year emission windows like 1572–1573 typically indicate a short-lived administrative or mintage agreement rather than continuous production.