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1 Thaler - Volkmar Wolfgang St. Andreas Ausbeute
| Issuer | Hohnstein, County of |
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| Year | 1572-1573 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse description | Quartered coat of arms of the County of Hohnstein, bearing the checky and lion quarterings associated with the Hohnstein and Lohra-Klettenberg territories, surmounted by an ornate crowned helm with elaborate foliate mantling spreading to either side. The shield is centrally positioned within the coin field, enclosed by an inner beaded border. A circular Latin legend surrounds the composition, reading the ruler's name and titles. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Hohnstein was a small and financially precarious county in the Harz region, and its counts leaned heavily on mining revenues to sustain any pretense of independence. This thaler is an Ausbeute issue — struck directly from ore extracted at the St. Andreas mine — a practice that tied coinage explicitly to a specific working shaft rather than general treasury metal. Volkmar Wolfgang, who ruled jointly with his brothers under perpetual debt pressure, used such pieces partly as prestige instruments, demonstrating to creditors and neighbors alike that the mines were still producing.
The county was absorbed into Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel within decades of this striking.