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1 Thaler - Peter Ernest I, Christoph II and John Hoyer III
| Issuer | Mansfeld-Friedeburg, County of |
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| Year | 1558-1573 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse lettering | PETER. ERNST. CHRIS(TO). HANS. HOI(ER). |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Mansfeld's copper mines had made the county one of the wealthiest territories in the Holy Roman Empire by the mid-sixteenth century, and the counts exercised their minting rights aggressively — issuing joint coinage under multiple co-rulers simultaneously, as dynastic partition had divided the county into parallel lines still sharing certain privileges. Peter Ernest I would later achieve far greater fame as a military commander under Habsburg service, eventually governing the Spanish Netherlands for over a decade, but in 1558 he was simply one of three counts squabbling over silver output from the same exhausted ore seams.