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2 1/2 Thaler - Adolphus XIII
| Issuer | County of Holstein-Schaumburg-Pinneberg |
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| Year | 1592-1593 |
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| Weight | 70.5 g |
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| Obverse description | Central field occupied by a large, elaborately quartered armorial achievement displaying the multiple heraldic devices of the County of Holstein-Schaumburg-Pinneberg, surrounded by rich Renaissance acanthus scrollwork and decorative mantling. Above the shield, a prominent comital crown surmounts a radiate sunburst from which multiple helmet crests fan outward, including plumes and heraldic animals. The composition is densely ornamented in the High Renaissance Mannerist style characteristic of late sixteenth-century German coinage. A beaded inner circle frames the central device, with the peripheral Latin legend reading ADOL • D : G • COM • HOL SCH • E • STE • DOM • I • GEM, followed by the date numerals 92, running around the outer margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | ADOL • D : G • COM • HOL SCH • E • STE • DOM • I • GEM 92 |
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Holstein-Schaumburg-Pinneberg was among the smallest and most administratively tangled of the north German territories, its comital line perpetually squeezed between the ambitions of Brunswick-Lüneburg and the Danish crown. Adolphus XIII ruled from 1576 until his death in 1601, and the 1592–93 dating of this piece places its production squarely within the height of Rhenish and Lower Saxon taler production, when large-flan multiple-taler pieces served as prestige objects and instruments of dynastic assertion rather than everyday exchange.
At roughly 70.5 g, this 2½-taler sits in an awkward denomination rarely produced for circulation. Dav Lg#449 classifies it among the large-module presentation-adjacent strikes of the period — pieces minted in small numbers, often for gifting at court.