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⅔ Thaler
| Issuer | Emden, City of |
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| Year | 1687 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#31 |
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| Reverse description | Displayed double-headed imperial eagle with both heads crowned, supporting a central orb surmounted by a cross on its breast. The eagle's wings are spread in a bold baroque style, and the whole composition is enclosed within a continuous circular legend bounded by a rope or cable border. The legend identifies the Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I as the issuing sovereign authority. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Emden's municipal coinage of the late seventeenth century reflects the city's persistent struggle to maintain monetary autonomy against the encroachments of Brandenburg-Prussia, which had claimed suzerainty over the city since 1660. The ⅔ Thaler — equivalent to the Gulden or two-thirds piece dominant in northern German trade — was the workhorse denomination of the period, widely accepted across the Hamburg-based exchange networks.
KM#31 is among the later civic issues before Emden's coinage rights were effectively curtailed in the early eighteenth century.