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3 Kreuzers - Charles Theodor
| Issuer | Palatinate |
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| Year | 1743 |
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| Currency | Thaler |
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| Obverse description | Rampant lion facing right, depicted within an ornate crowned cartouche with scrollwork surround. The crown surmounts the cartouche at the top of the design. A circular legend frames the central device, reading CHUR PFALZ in Latin characters, identifying the coin as an issue of the Electoral Palatinate. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Charles Theodore became Elector Palatine in 1743 at age seventeen, the same year this coin was struck. The Palatinate's minting activity in this period was centered at Mannheim, where Charles Theodore would later build one of the most culturally ambitious courts in the Holy Roman Empire — though in 1743 that future was hardly legible in a workaday silver 3 Kreuzer.
KM#312 is among the earliest issues of his sixty-year reign, which eventually extended to Bavaria following the extinction of the Wittelsbach-Munich line in 1777.