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1 Thaler - Maria Danielstaler
| Issuer | Lordship of Jever |
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| Year | 1567 |
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| Weight | 29.17 g |
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| Obverse description | Central field displays the elaborately mantled coat of arms of the Lordship of Jever, featuring a lion passant on the shield, surmounted by a crested helm with ornate foliate and scrollwork mantling. The date 67 (for 1567) appears divided on either side of the helm at the upper field. A beaded inner circle frames the arms, with the circumferential legend in Latin separated by star stops running along the outer border. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Jever's "Danielstaler" takes its name from the Old Testament narrative of Daniel in the lions' den, a subject chosen deliberately by Maria of Jever as dynastic propaganda — positioning herself as the divinely protected ruler of a small, vulnerable territory surrounded by more powerful neighbors. Maria never married and ruled Jever independently from 1536 until her death in 1575, an unusual circumstance for a sixteenth-century German lordship. These thaler-sized devotional issues were as much political statements as they were currency, asserting legitimacy through scriptural allegory rather than dynastic lineage.