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⅙ Thaler - August of Sachsen-Weissenfels
| Issuer | Archbishopric of Magdeburg |
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| Year | 1670 |
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| Orientation | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
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| Reverse description | Centrally placed crowned coat of arms of the Archbishopric of Magdeburg, displaying the quartered heraldic shield with characteristic charges. The fractional value '1/6' appears at the bottom of the design, while the date and the mintmaster's initials (HHF) flank the arms to either side. The entire composition is enclosed within a circular Latin legend. |
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| Mint | HHF Halle / Saale, Germany |
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August of Sachsen-Weissenfels administered Magdeburg as its Lutheran administrator rather than a consecrated Catholic archbishop — a post created by the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 as a compromise that effectively handed the see to Brandenburg upon his death. He died in 1680, and Brandenburg duly absorbed it. The 1670 issue falls squarely in that peculiar twilight decade when Magdeburg's ecclesiastical status was canonically suspended and its political future already decided on paper.