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1 Thaler - Wilhelm
| Issuer | Auersperg, Counts of |
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| Year | 1805 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse description | Bare-headed bust of Wilhelm, Prince of Auersperg, facing right, rendered in high relief with finely detailed curly hair in the Neoclassical style. The truncation is plain and the portrait occupies the central field. A circular Latin legend surrounds the effigy reading WILHELMVS S R I PR AVERSPERG DVX DE GOTSCHEE, running from the lower left to the lower right along the inner border. The mint signature appears in small letters at the base of the truncation. The coin exhibits a broad, flat field with a finely reeded edge visible at the periphery. |
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| Obverse lettering | WILHELMVS S R I PR AVERSPERG DVX DE GOTSCHEE (Translation: Wilhelm, Prince of the Holy Empire and of Auersperg, Duke of Gottschee) |
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The Auersperg family held the right to strike coins — a privilege known as Münzrecht — as part of their status as imperial counts within the Holy Roman Empire, though by 1805 that institution itself had less than a year left before Napoleon forced its formal dissolution. This piece was struck just months before Francis II abdicated the imperial title, effectively ending a political structure the Auerspergs had operated within for centuries.
Davenport records only a handful of distinct varieties for this type, and surviving examples in any grade are infrequently encountered at auction.