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2 Thalers - Ernest III
| Issuer | Holstein-Schaumburg-Pinneberg, County of |
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| Year | 1601 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#9, Dav Lg#460 |
| Obverse description | Quartered coat of arms with a central inescutcheon bearing the Schaumburg nettle-leaf device, the shield elaborately mantled and surmounted by three ornate crested helmets with flowing lambrequins. The circumferential legend in Latin runs around the periphery, with the last two digits of the date incorporated at the end of the inscription. The heraldic composition is rendered in the vigorous late-Renaissance engraving style characteristic of north German territorial coinage of the period. |
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| Reverse lettering | HATS GOTT. VORSEHN. SO. WIRTS. WOL. GESCHN. (Translation: If God had planned it this way, then that is how it will happen) |
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Ernest III ruled a county so administratively fragmented that Pinneberg, Schaumburg, and Holstein functioned almost as separate units under a single title. The 2 Thaler denomination was rarely struck by minor German territories in this period — the dies, silver, and technical capacity required made it an occasional showpiece rather than a circulation issue. This piece almost certainly served diplomatic or gift purposes rather than trade.
Davenport's Lg#460 classification places it among large-format German silver of the period, a category where survivorship is thin. Ernest died in 1622, and the county's subsequent partition among heirs effectively ended coherent coinage from the territory.