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⅔ Thaler - Christian V
| Issuer | Oldenburg, County of |
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| Year | 1690 |
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| Currency | Thaler (1535-1773) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Large bold fraction '2/3' displayed prominently in the center field within a beaded inner circle, denoting the denomination of two-thirds Thaler. The surrounding circumferential legend in Latin identifies the coin as new silver money, with the date 1690 and the mintmaster's initials C·W incorporated into the legend. The design is stark and functional, emphasizing the denomination with oversized numerals in a style characteristic of late seventeenth-century German monetary reform coinage. |
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Christian V of Denmark held Oldenburg as a hereditary possession, and the county's coinage of this period was effectively an extension of Danish monetary policy rather than any expression of local autonomy. The ⅔ Thaler denomination — a fraction calibrated to the North German gulden convention — was widely struck across the region in the late seventeenth century as trade demands pushed mints toward compatible, interchangeable silver units.
Davenport's attribution to SG#721 places this firmly within the Schleswig-Holstein grouping, a classification that reflects the administrative tangle of Christian V's northern territories more than any geographic logic.