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1 Thaler - Ulrich
| Issuer | Württemberg, Duchy of |
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| Year | 1537 |
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| Value | 1 Thaler |
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| Reverse description | Quartered shield displaying the four-fold arms of Württemberg and Teck, surmounted by two ornate crested helmets with elaborate mantling in Renaissance style, all within a beaded inner circle. The upper quarters bear the Württemberg stags and the Teck lozenges, while the lower quarters display additional dynastic devices. The surrounding legend incorporates the date 1537 at its conclusion, rendered in Gothic-influenced lettering typical of early sixteenth-century German coinage. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Ulrich of Württemberg had only recently been restored to his duchy in 1534, after fifteen years of Habsburg exile following his defeat at the Battle of Lauffen. This thaler belongs to his first years back in power — a period when re-establishing ducal authority meant, among other things, issuing credible coinage. The Reichsmünzordnung of 1524 had set standards for thaler production across the Empire, and Ulrich's mint was operating within that framework, though the duchy's silver supply drew partly on Tyrolean trade networks rather than domestic extraction.