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1 Thaler Wiedertäufer
| Issuer | Münster, City of |
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| Year | 1534 |
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| Value | 1 Thaler |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is entirely composed of inscribed text arranged in concentric registers with no figural design. The central field bears the mint name 'THO MVNS TER' (zu Münster) in large raised Gothic lettering within an oval beaded border, surmounted by the date 1534. Surrounding this central oval is an inner annular legend in Low German, separated from the outer legend by a raised beaded ring. The outermost legend runs along the entire circumference within a plain raised rim. The inscriptions, rendered in the Anabaptist theological idiom of the Münster Kingdom, proclaim doctrines of the Kingdom of God, a single faith, and baptism — reflecting the radical religious ideology of Jan van Leiden's regime. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse, like the obverse, bears no figural imagery and is devoted entirely to scriptural text. The central field displays five lines of large raised Gothic lettering in Low German, reading 'DAT WORT IS FLEISCH GE WORDEN VN WANET IIN VNS' — a paraphrase of John 1:14 ('The Word was made flesh and dwelt among us'), enclosed within a raised beaded inner border. A continuous circular legend in the same Low German script occupies the outer annular field, separated from the central inscription by the beaded ring and bounded by the plain outer rim. The overall composition is characteristic of the propagandistic coinage struck by the Anabaptist theocracy of Münster in 1534–1535. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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