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⅔ Thaler - Charles XI
| Issuer | Duchy of Pomerania (Swedish Rule) |
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| Year | 1681-1684 |
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| Currency | Thaler (1630-1815) |
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| Reverse description | Large crowned quartered heraldic shield bearing the royal arms of Sweden and associated territories, supported by two wild men (woodwose) as shield-bearers standing on either side. The denomination fraction 2/3 appears at the base of the shield within the composition. The date is placed in the upper field flanking the crown above the shield. The legend is distributed around the full periphery within a beaded border, reading MONETA NOVA ARGENT DVCA POMERAN CITERIORIS. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The 2/3 Thaler denomination — effectively equivalent to the North German Gulden — emerged as a direct response to the monetary chaos following the Thirty Years' War, when Swedish-controlled territories needed coinage that could trade fluidly with neighboring German states. Swedish Pomerania, administered from Stockholm but economically entangled with Brandenburg and the Hanseatic cities, adopted the denomination precisely because Hamburg had already established it as the regional standard of account.
Charles XI was still consolidating power domestically during this emission, having wrested effective control from the regency council only after the Battle of Lund in 1676. The Pomeranian mint at Stettin struck these pieces under Swedish fiscal authority during a stretch when the duchy had just been returned to Sweden by the Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye in 1679, following a brief Brandenburg occupation.