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Replica - 1 Thaler - Christian, Bischof of Halberstadt Pfaffenfeind Taler
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| Year | 1988 |
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| Diameter | 40 mm |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | GOTTES FREUNDT DER PFAFFEN FEIND CHRISTIAN HERTZ ZV BRRAVNSCHW:V:LUNEB |
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Christian of Brunswick, the "mad bishop" who never took holy orders and spent his episcopate waging war across the Holy Roman Empire, issued the original Pfaffenfeind ("priest-enemy") Taler in the early 1620s using silver melted down from looted church plate — a deliberate provocation made literal in the metal itself. The 1988 piece is a modern restrike or replica, almost certainly produced for the collector market during the sustained West German interest in Thirty Years' War commemoratives.