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1 Thaler - Wilhelm von Brandenburg
| Issuer | Archbishopric of Riga |
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| Year | 1558 |
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| Value | 1 Thaler |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | 1558 |
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Wilhelm von Brandenburg-Ansbach served as Archbishop of Riga from 1539 until the archbishopric's effective dissolution during the Livonian War — a conflict that erupted the same year this thaler was struck. The 1558 invasion by Ivan IV fundamentally dismantled the Livonian Confederation, and Wilhelm himself was captured by Polish-Lithuanian forces the following year in a political dispute over the territory's allegiance. Coins issued in his final years as archbishop are consequently rare: the mint infrastructure collapsed alongside the political order that authorized it.