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60 Kreuzers
| Issuer | Free imperial City of Colmar (French States) |
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| Year | 1596 |
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| Value | 1 Thaler |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Colmar's 60 Kreuzer of 1596 belongs to a brief window when the city exercised meaningful monetary autonomy within the Holy Roman Empire. As a free imperial city in Alsace, Colmar held minting rights but operated under constant pressure from both Habsburg monetary ordinances and the practical reality of being a small issuer competing against larger regional coins. The 60 Kreuzer denomination itself was a product of late 16th-century attempts to rationalize fractional silver coinage across the Empire.
The E&L#72 "var" attribution signals a die variation not fully catalogued by Engel and Lehr — not uncommon for Colmar issues, where small-run production meant punches and dies were reused or recut inconsistently.