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⅔ Thaler
| Issuer | Goslar, City of |
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| Year | 1723-1725 |
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| Currency | Thaler |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Goslar's civic coinage authority was already an anachronism by the 1720s — the city's famous Rammelsberg silver mines, which had supplied the region's metal since the tenth century, were in steep decline, and the municipal treasury was under sustained pressure. The ⅔ Thaler denomination itself was a distinctly north German convention, pegged to the Hamburg banco system, and saw heavy use across the Lower Saxon Circle during this period precisely because it bridged the gap between the full Reichsthaler and smaller transactional coin.
Production across three consecutive years suggests a sustained local demand rather than a single issue run.