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1 Thaler - William II of Bongard of Bergerhausen
| Issuer | Lordship of Heid and Bleid |
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| Year | 1572 |
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| Value | 1 Thaler |
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| Obverse description | Full-length facing figure of St. Martin in armour, standing in the field, holding a tall banner or lance in his right hand and a sword or sceptre in his left. The saint is depicted in a late medieval stylistic manner characteristic of hammered Rhenish thalers. A circular beaded border frames the design, with the Latin legend SANCTVS MARTINVS distributed around the periphery. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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The Lordship of Heid and Bleid was among the smallest sovereign entities in the Holy Roman Empire with the right to strike coinage — a privilege jealously guarded and frequently contested by larger neighbors in the Rhineland. William II of Bongard of Bergerhausen issued this thaler under that contested authority in 1572, the same decade the Empire was repeatedly litigating which petty lords retained legitimate minting rights under the Reichsmünzordnung reforms of 1559 and 1566.
Menadier's census recorded only a handful of specimens, and Davenport's listing reflects how rarely these pieces surface at auction even within specialized German taler collections.