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6 Kreuzers - Albert Ernest I
| Issuer | Öttingen |
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| Year | 1675-1678 |
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| Currency | Thaler |
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| Reverse description | Central crowned coat of arms of the House of Öttingen, displaying a quartered shield with crossed diagonal elements and horizontal bars, characteristic of the Öttingen armorial bearings, surmounted by a princely crown. The shield is flanked by decorative scrollwork and star ornaments in the field. The date 1676 is divided across the lower portion of the field. The circumferential Latin legend DOMINVS PROVIDEBIT encircles the design within a beaded border, invoking the biblical motto 'The Lord will provide'. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Öttingen was a fragmented Imperial County in Swabia, divided by the early seventeenth century into multiple confessional branches — Lutheran and Catholic — each exercising separate coinage rights. Albert Ernest I ruled the Öttingen-Öttingen line, and his small silver issues of the 1670s reflect the broader chaos of post-Westphalian minting in the Holy Roman Empire, where hundreds of minor authorities struck fractional coinage of wildly inconsistent fineness. The 1670s were precisely the period when Imperial circles were tightening enforcement of the Leipzig and Zinna standards, making issues from marginal county mints increasingly scrutinized.
KM#48 was produced across a four-year window, suggesting intermittent rather than continuous striking.