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3 Thalers - Ernest III
| Issuer | Holstein-Schaumburg-Pinneberg, County of |
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| Year | 1603 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse description | Elaborate quartered and impaled coat of arms of Holstein-Schaumburg-Pinneberg displayed within an ornate cartouche, surmounted by multiple crested helms in mantling. The achievement features the distinctive chequered Schaumburg and Holstein charges, with a crowned eagle crest visible to the upper right. A circular Latin legend runs along the periphery of the milled border, identifying the issuing count. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Ernest III ruled a county perpetually squeezed between more powerful neighbors, and the 1603 triple thaler was almost certainly struck as a presentation piece rather than for circulation — a standard political instrument among minor German lords who used oversized silver multiples to project wealth and dynastic seriousness they could barely afford in practice. Schaumburg-Pinneberg would be partitioned and effectively absorbed within decades of this coin's striking, the county reverting to Holstein-Gottorp in 1640 upon extinction of the line.
The Davenport large-size listing confirms this as a recognized multiple thaler type, but surviving examples are genuinely scarce — the county's mint output was never prolific, and triple thalers of this weight saw no meaningful secondary circulation.