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1 Thaler - Peter Ernest, Bruno, Gebhard and John George
| Issuer | Mansfeld-Friedeburg, County of |
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| Year | 1587-1588 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse lettering | PE. E. BRVN(O) GE(B). HA. G(O). P. |
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| Reverse lettering | COMI. E. DOMI. I(N). MAN(SFE). NOB(I). DO(MI). I. HE(L). |
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Mansfeld-Friedeburg operated under a peculiar inheritance structure that forced multiple heirs to share both territory and minting rights simultaneously, producing joint-issue thalers that bear the names of all ruling counts together. This piece names four co-rulers — Peter Ernest, Bruno, Gebhard, and John George — a consolidation reflecting the county's habitual partition and reunification across generations of the Mansfeld dynasty, a family whose copper-mining wealth funded an outsized political presence in the Holy Roman Empire well into the late sixteenth century.
The two-year emission window of 1587–1588 was narrow even by joint-reign standards.