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2 Thalers Baptism
| Issuer | Rostock, City of |
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| Year | 1624 |
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| Currency | Thaler |
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| Reverse description | The entire reverse field is occupied by an eleven-line Latin commemorative inscription recording the birth of the firstborn son of Illustrious Prince Adolf Friedrich on 1 December 1623 and his baptism on 18 January 1624, concluding with the acclamatory word VIVAT. The mintmaster's initials HD appear in an ornamental cartouche at the foot of the inscription. A beaded border runs along the entire circumference of the coin. |
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| Reverse lettering | Q F F Q SIT ILLVSTRIS PRINC ADOLPHI FRIDERICI FILIVS PRIMOGENITVS NASCITVR I DECEMB AN M DC XXIII ET SACRO FONTE RENASCITVR XIIX IANVA AN XXIV VIVAT HD |
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Rostock issued this piece to commemorate the baptism of a prominent citizen's child — a practice common among prosperous German free cities in the early seventeenth century, where civic and ecclesiastical occasions were marked with presentation-grade silver at multiples of the thaler. The year 1624 places it squarely in the Thirty Years' War, when Rostock, as a Hanseatic port nominally within the Holy Roman Empire, was navigating the precarious politics of Lutheran northern Germany while Danish intervention was already underway to the south.
Davenport's large thaler listing and the Kunzel concordance both confirm this as a donative type, not a circulation strike.