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1 Thaler - Philip Adolf
| Issuer | Burgraviate of Friedberg |
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| Year | 1688 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Reverse description | Imperial double-headed eagle of the Holy Roman Empire displayed in the center of the field, with wings spread, each head surmounted by a separate crown and the whole topped by a single imperial crown. The eagle's breast bears the imperial orb. Two heraldic shields are positioned at the lower left and lower right flanking the eagle's tail. The mint initials C-B appear on either side below the eagle. The circumferential Latin legend naming Emperor Leopold I as Holy Roman Emperor surrounds the entire design. |
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| Reverse lettering | LEOPOLDVS * I * D G * RO M * IMP * SEMPER * AUGVST C B |
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Philip Adolf von Riedesel zu Eisenbach held the burgraviate for decades, but Friedberg's thalers are notable less for their ruler than for their issuing authority — the Burgraviate of Friedberg was a peculiar imperial immediacy, a small enclave near Frankfurt that maintained its minting rights almost by institutional inertia long after territories of its size had lost them. By 1688, the Holy Roman Empire's coinage system was nominally regulated by the Reichsmünzordnung, though enforcement remained inconsistent enough that minor lords like the Friedberg burgraves continued striking full thalers well into the late seventeenth century.