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1 Thaler - William I of Greiffenstein and Reinhard of Hungen Ausbeutetaler
| Issuer | County of Solms-Braunfels |
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| Year | 1623 |
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| Currency | Thaler |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Crowned double-headed imperial eagle displayed, with wings spread, bearing an orb on its breast. The eagle is rendered in the standard Imperial style of the Holy Roman Empire under Ferdinand II. The surrounding legend identifies the issuing emperor as Ferdinand II, by the grace of God, Roman Emperor, ever August, and King of Germany, Hungary, and Bohemia. |
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The Solms-Braunfels Ausbeutetaler of 1623 is a mine-production thaler, struck specifically to advertise and celebrate silver output from the county's own mining operations — a practice common among smaller German territories eager to demonstrate economic self-sufficiency during the fractious years of the early Thirty Years' War. William I of Greiffenstein and Reinhard of Hungen were co-rulers under the partitioned Solms inheritance, a dynastic arrangement that produced jointly-issued coinage of considerable rarity.
Davenport's ST#7743 designation places this firmly in the Ausbeutetaler specialty category. Issues from Solms-Braunfels in this period survive in very limited numbers.