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5 Thalers - Christian of Minden
| Issuer | Brunswick-Lüneburg-Celle |
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| Year | 1629 |
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| Currency | Thaler |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | 1629 |
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Christian of Minden — so named for his role as Administrator of the Diocese of Minden — was one of the more aggressive Protestant commanders of the Thirty Years' War, fighting under Ernst von Mansfeld and later independently before his death at the Battle of Stadtlohn in 1623. This five-thaler piece was struck six years after his death, almost certainly from silver bullion captured or accumulated during his military campaigns. Large multiple-thaler issues of this kind functioned less as circulating currency than as dynastic prestige objects and gifts among the Protestant nobility still deep in the war.
The 1629 date places production squarely between the Edict of Restitution and the Swedish intervention — a moment of maximum Protestant political anxiety in the Empire.