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2 Thalers
| Issuer | Regensburg, Free city of |
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| Year | 1740-1745 |
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| Currency | Thaler |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Laureate and draped bust of Holy Roman Emperor Charles VII facing right, wearing armor with elaborate shoulder pauldrons and a lace cravat visible beneath the cuirass; the voluminous wig falls in long curls over the shoulders in the Baroque manner. The bold circular legend naming the emperor surrounds the effigy, with the engraver's mark visible in the lower field beneath the truncation. The portrait is rendered in high relief with finely engraved detail to the hair and armored breastplate. |
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Regensburg's double thaler issues of this period were struck under the city's status as an imperial free city — a designation that gave Regensburg the right to mint its own coinage independently, a privilege it guarded aggressively against encroachment from both Bavaria and the Habsburg administration. The city was also the permanent seat of the Immerwährender Reichstag, the perpetually sitting imperial diet that had convened there since 1663, which meant Regensburg maintained an outsized political profile relative to its modest size.
KM#283 is a large-flan multiple thaler, and surviving examples typically show uneven luster distribution consistent with the city's known habit of using worn dies longer than most imperial mints would have tolerated.