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1 Thaler - Melchior of Hatzfeldt-Gleichen
| Issuer | County of Hatzfeld |
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| Year | 1666 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#1, Dav ST#6709 |
| Obverse description | Armored bust of Count Melchior of Hatzfeldt-Gleichen facing right, wearing a gorget and elaborately articulated plate armor with sash, his hair rendered in flowing curls. The effigy occupies the central field with considerable relief. A Latin legend runs along the outer border between a beaded inner circle and a milled rim, reading: P MELCH HATFELD COM GLEICH DI CRO / FERD II D G ROM IMP SA. |
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| Reverse description | The Virgin Mary, crowned with a halo of stars, is depicted seated on clouds and facing slightly left, holding the Christ Child before her with both arms; the radiant Christ Child is shown with a nimbus. Beneath the figures, the Hatzfeldt arms — a shield bearing a lion — are displayed flanked by ornamental scrollwork. A Latin devotional legend runs along the outer border between a beaded circle and milled rim: ET DEXTERAE MEAE AUXILIATRIX SPES CONSILIORUM. |
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Melchior of Hatzfeldt-Gleichen was one of the most decorated Imperial commanders of the Thirty Years' War, winning engagements at Vlotho and Jankau before the Peace of Westphalia ended his campaigning career in 1648. The County of Hatzfeld issued coinage only briefly, and this Thaler — struck eighteen years after the war's end — almost certainly reflects the family's postwar drive to assert comital dignity through the one medium that announced sovereign pretension most unambiguously.
KM#1 designation confirms this as the sole taler type recorded for the county.