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1 Thaler Shooting festival
| Issuer | Nuremberg, Free imperial city of |
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| Year | 1733 |
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| Currency | Reichsguldiner (1620-1753) |
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| Reverse lettering | A · MDCCXXXIII · D · 8 · IUN · |
| Edge | Reeded |
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Nuremberg's shooting festivals — the Freischießen — were civic events of genuine political weight, used by the city council to reinforce municipal identity and maintain the loyalty of the marksmen's guilds at a time when the Free Imperial Cities were fighting a slow rearguard action against absorption into surrounding territorial states. This thaler was struck as a prize or presentation piece for the 1733 festival, not as circulating currency; most survivors show little to no wear for exactly that reason.
The Davenport reference places it within the German Taler series under shooting festival issues, a category that attracts sustained collector interest precisely because each piece is tied to a datable civic occasion.