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1 Thaler - Maximilian IV Joseph
| Issuer | Berg |
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| Year | 1802-1805 |
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| Value | 1 Thaler |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Berg was a small Rhenish county elevated to a duchy under French pressure, and Maximilian IV Joseph — Elector of Bavaria — held it as a secondary title during the years this thaler was struck. The issue dates from the precise window between Napoleon's reorganization of the left-bank German territories and the formal dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire in 1806, making this a coin of a political entity already being reshaped around it.
The .750 fineness is notably below the older Reich thaler standard, a concession to wartime fiscal strain that would become characteristic of German coinage in this period.