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⅔ Thaler - Christof Frederick and Jost Christian
| Issuer | Stolberg-Stolberg, County of |
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| Year | 1730 |
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| Weight | 12.95 g |
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| Obverse script | German/Latin |
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| Reverse description | Eight lines of German text filling the central field, comprising a devotional inscription drawn from Psalm 119, verse 2, with the date 25 June incorporated into the legend. Below the text block, the fractional value '2/3' appears within an oval cartouche, flanked on either side by the mintmaster's initials 'IIG'. The year is encoded as a chronogram within the inscription. The entire reverse is framed by a beaded inner border. |
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The 2/3 Thaler denomination — effectively a Gulden by another name — was the workhorse of north German silver coinage through much of the eighteenth century, and the small County of Stolberg-Stolberg used it aggressively to assert its minting rights under the Holy Roman Empire. The joint-reign issues of Christof Frederick and Jost Christian reflect the county's practice of co-rulership under the agnatic succession rules of the house, a arrangement that produced a relatively compressed series of shared-authority types before the line divided again.
The Müseler reference places this squarely within the Harz mining region's documented output. Stolberg's silver supply drew directly from local Harz extraction.