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10 Kreuzers - Charles Theodor
| Issuer | Palatinate |
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| Year | 1761-1763 |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Obverse description | Bare-headed bust of Elector Charles Theodore facing right, with flowing hair tied at the nape, occupying the central field. The mintmaster's initials 'A·S' appear in the lower exergue beneath the truncation. A Latin legend encircles the bust reading 'D:G·CAR·THEODOR·C·P·R·S·R·I·A·T·&·EL·A·S', abbreviating the elector's full titles by the grace of God as Count Palatine of the Rhine, Arch-Steward and Elector of the Holy Roman Empire. The coin is struck in the Baroque style typical of mid-eighteenth-century German princely coinage, with a beaded inner border around the periphery. |
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| Mint | Amberg Mint |
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Charles Theodor ruled the Palatinate from Mannheim, and his coinage of the early 1760s was produced against the closing years of the Seven Years' War — a conflict that drained German states of hard currency through military requisitioning and troop subsidies. The Palatinate itself avoided direct invasion during this phase, but regional silver flows were badly disrupted, making even small fractional issues like this one economically consequential for daily commerce.
KM#384 spans three consecutive years, suggesting an unusually sustained production run for a denomination this size — possibly driven by chronic small-change shortages common to the Rhine Palatinate's market towns during wartime.