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1½ Thaler
| Issuer | Hildesheim, City of |
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| Year | 1618 |
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| Currency | Thaler |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | DA.PACEM.DOMINE.IN.DIEBUS.NOSTRIS.HILDESHEIM |
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The 1618 date places this piece at the opening year of the Thirty Years' War, a conflict that would devastate the economy of Lower Saxony and ultimately strip many ecclesiastical cities — including Hildesheim — of financial and political autonomy. The city had been producing thaler-denomination silver in the early seventeenth century while still navigating the unresolved tensions between its Catholic cathedral chapter and the Protestant-leaning municipal government, a division formalized in the so-called Hildesheim Capitulation of 1643.
The 1½ thaler denomination itself was minted specifically for trade and larger transactions, never intended for daily circulation.