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4 Guldenthaler
| Issuer | Free Imperial City of Regensburg |
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| Year | 1595 |
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| Value | 4 Thalers |
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| Obverse lettering | MONETA. REIPVBLICÆ. RATISBONENSIS. 9 5 |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Guldenthaler denomination was a short-lived experiment in standardizing large silver coinage across the Holy Roman Empire during the late sixteenth century — essentially an attempt to produce a coin worth four times the Reichsthaler in a single strike. Regensburg was one of very few Imperial cities with both the mint authority and the financial standing to issue at this weight, a privilege the city had defended jealously since its mint privileges were confirmed under imperial charter.
Pieces of this size and fineness rarely circulated in the conventional sense; they functioned closer to bullion instruments for merchant banking settlements. The survival rate of undamaged examples reflects that — most were handled by counting houses, not purses.