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1 Thaler - Moritz William
| Issuer | Saxe-Zeitz, Duchy of |
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| Year | 1667 |
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| Value | 1 Thaler |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of Duke Moritz Wilhelm of Saxe-Zeitz facing slightly to the right, wearing a voluminous curled periwig and armored cuirass with lace cravat visible at the throat. The effigy is rendered in high relief with fine engraving detail on the hair and costume. A circular Latin legend surrounds the portrait within a raised rim, reading continuously around the coin's periphery. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Saxe-Zeitz was one of the five secondary duchies carved out of the Albertine Saxon territories in 1656 under the terms of the Naumburg Partition, a dynastic division insisted upon by Duke Johann Georg I's younger sons despite the Saxon Estates' strong objections. Moritz Wilhelm, who ruled Zeitz from 1664, presided over a territory economically dependent on its larger neighbors and chronically short of revenue. Thalers of this duchy are correspondingly scarce — the Zeitz mint operated intermittently and was frequently inactive for years at a stretch.
Davenport 7666 places this among the rarer Zeitz issues of the 1660s.