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Groschen or Dicken
| Issuer | Thann, City of |
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| Year | 1551 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | A displayed eagle with wings spread facing left occupies the central field, rendered in vigorous relief characteristic of 16th-century Germanic civic coinage. The eagle's head is turned to its right, with detailed feathering visible across the breast and wings. A circular legend surrounds the eagle reading +DOMINE.CONSERVA.NOS.IN.PACE, invoking divine protection. The overall style is consistent with hammered silver coinage of the Alsace region during the mid-16th century. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Thann, a Free Imperial City in Alsace, struck this heavy silver piece during a period when municipal coinage rights were fiercely contested between local authorities and the Habsburgs. At 41.50 grams, this is an exceptional weight for a mid-sixteenth-century groschen denomination — well above even the most generous Dicken specifications of the period — suggesting either a die intended for a larger module or a significant planchet error that escaped quality control at the city mint.