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1 Thaler - Louis IV
| Issuer | Hessen-Marburg, Landgraviate of |
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| Year | 1588 |
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| Weight | 28.92 g |
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| Obverse lettering | LVDOVI D G LANDGRA HASSIÆ CO IN CATZEN 15 88 |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Louis IV of Hessen-Marburg ruled only the Marburg partition of Hesse, a territory created by the 1567 division that split the landgraviate among the four sons of Philip the Magnanimous. That partition proved a bureaucratic and dynastic headache for decades — the Marburg line itself died out in 1604 when Louis IV's brother Frederick died without heirs, triggering a bitter inheritance dispute between Hessen-Kassel and Hessen-Darmstadt that dragged well into the Thirty Years' War.
The Schütz III#497 reference places this among a small documented series from the Marburg mint's final active decades before the line's extinction ended independent coinage there.