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1/3 Thaler - Francis Maximilian and Francis Henry
| Issuer | Mansfeld-Bornstedt, County of |
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| Year | 1673 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A four-fold oval shield of arms, comprising the quartered coat of arms of the Counts of Mansfeld-Bornstedt, set within an ornate cartouche. The mintmaster's initials 'AB' and 'K' flank the shield to left and right respectively. A crown surmounts the shield above, with the date 1673 divided on either side of the crown in the upper field. The entire device is encircled by a Latin legend within a beaded border, with a rope-pattern outer rim. |
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Mansfeld-Bornstedt was one of the fragmented sub-counties produced by the repeated partition of the Mansfeld territories among competing lines of the Mansfeld family — a process that had been generating numismatic chaos since the sixteenth century. By 1673, Francis Maximilian and Francis Henry were co-ruling a county barely viable as a political unit, its silver mining output a shadow of what the Mansfeld region had once contributed to Saxony's economy. Joint-ruler issues from these terminal Mansfeld lines are scarce simply because the issuing authority rarely survived long enough to produce them in volume.