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1 Thaler - Philip Wolfgang
| Issuer | Hanau-Lichtenberg, County of |
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| Year | 1626 |
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| Value | 1 Thaler |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Philip Wolfgang ruled Hanau-Lichtenberg from 1599 until his death in 1641, navigating the catastrophic opening decades of the Thirty Years' War with notable diplomatic caution — the county straddled the Rhine and held Protestant sympathies while remaining dangerously exposed to Catholic League troop movements. This thaler was struck in 1626, the year Tilly's forces were consolidating dominance across much of the Empire following the Battle of Lutter. That Hanau-Lichtenberg was producing silver thalers at all in this year speaks to the relative stability Philip Wolfgang maintained through careful neutrality and strategic concession.