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1 Thaler - Maximilian III Joseph
| Issuer | Bavaria, Electorate of |
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| Year | 1763-1768 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Reverse description | Centrally placed, elaborately ornate crowned coat of arms displaying the quartered arms of Bavaria and the Rhenish Palatinate, with an inescutcheon bearing the imperial orb. The shield is supported on either side by rampant lions and encircled by two decorative chains of chivalric orders. The date is divided and placed at the base of the composition flanking the supporters. No peripheral legend appears on the reverse, the entire field being occupied by the armorial achievement in the grand Baroque heraldic tradition. |
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| Reverse lettering | 1767 |
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Maximilian III Joseph inherited Bavaria from his father Charles VII — the only Wittelsbach ever elected Holy Roman Emperor — but where Charles had bankrupted the electorate chasing imperial ambitions during the War of Austrian Succession, Maximilian III spent his reign methodically rebuilding. The Academy of Sciences, the abolition of torture, early smallpox inoculation campaigns: his domestic reforms were among the most substantive of any German prince of the period. This thaler series was struck across those consolidation years.
The .2 variety distinction under KM#502 reflects die differences documented by Hahn — worth confirming against the specific reverse die characteristics before attribution.