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1 Thaler - Wolfgang of Dalberg Bettlertaler
| Issuer | Archbishopric of Mainz |
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| Year | 1593-1600 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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The "Bettlertaler" — beggar's thaler — earned its nickname not from poverty but from Wolfgang von Dalberg's controversial poor-relief policy, which redirected alms collection through ecclesiastical channels during a period of severe regional destitution in the Rhineland. The coin became associated with that campaign almost immediately after issue, a rare case of popular naming sticking hard enough to survive four centuries in the numismatic literature.
Wolfgang's archiepiscopate ran from 1582 to 1601, and this thaler was struck across the final years of it — a relatively tight production window that kept mintages modest.