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¾ Thaler - Ferdinand of Bayern
| Issuer | Bishopric of Münster |
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| Year | 1638 |
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| Value | ¾ Thaler |
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| Reverse description | Nativity scene depicting the Adoration of the Magi, with the Christ Child in a manger at the center, the Virgin Mary kneeling in adoration to the left, and Saint Joseph standing to the right beside a rustic stable structure. The Magi are shown presenting their offerings in a richly detailed low-relief composition. A ray of divine light descends from clouds in the upper field. The entire scene is enclosed within a beaded inner border, with a German-language inscription from the Gospel of John (1:14) rendered in Gothic script running around the outer margin. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Ferdinand of Bavaria held the bishopric of Münster from 1612 until his death in 1650, accumulating ecclesiastical titles across the Rhineland and Westphalia with a thoroughness that alarmed Protestant princes throughout the Empire. The ¾ Thaler denomination itself was an awkward fractional solution — large enough to require silver of consequence, oddly sized relative to the standard Thaler, and likely produced to satisfy specific regional accounting or trade conventions rather than general circulation demand.
1638 places this squarely in the final decade of the Thirty Years' War, when Münster's mint activity was shaped as much by military financing needs as by any monetary policy.