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⅔ Thaler - Detlef
| Issuer | County of Rantzau |
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| Year | 1689 |
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| Value | ⅔ Thaler |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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The County of Rantzau was a tiny imperial immediacy in Holstein, carved out of lands held by the powerful Rantzau family and granted comital status in 1650. The ⅔ Thaler — essentially the gulden or 2/3 piece that dominated North German trade in the late seventeenth century — was the workhorse denomination of the period, widely accepted across the fragmented currencies of the Empire. Detlef von Rantzau's decision to strike his own coinage was as much a political statement of sovereign standing as a practical one; the county's total land area was barely sufficient to justify the pretension.
The issue is rare. Rantzau's minting activity was brief and small in volume.