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1 Thaler - Wolfgang William of Pfalz-Neuburg
| Issuer | County of Ravensberg (German States) |
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| Year | 1641-1642 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | A Spanish-style escutcheon displaying eight-fold quartered arms with a central inescutcheon bearing the arms of Pfalz, surmounted by a small electoral crown. The collar and badge of the Order of the Golden Fleece is suspended beneath the shield. The mint date is divided between the upper left and upper right corners of the shield, with the encircling Latin legend running between the beaded inner border and the coin's outer rim. |
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| Reverse lettering | C VEL SP MAR RA ET MORS DO IN RA 164Z |
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Wolfgang William of Pfalz-Neuburg inherited Ravensberg in 1609 as part of the Jülich-Cleves-Berg succession crisis — one of the most legally tangled territorial disputes of the early seventeenth century, involving the Holy Roman Emperor, the Dutch Republic, Brandenburg, and Spain simultaneously. He held Ravensberg uneasily for decades, and coinage from the county under his authority is correspondingly sparse. This thaler dates to the final years of his reign; he died in 1653, having governed through nearly the entirety of the Thirty Years' War.