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⅔ Thaler - Frederick Botho and Charles Louis
| Issuer | County of Stolberg-Stolberg |
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| Year | 1764 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents the Stolberg wild deer (Hirsch), passant left, standing atop a rectangular pedestal bearing the mintmaster's initial 'S', with a tall cross-topped column rising behind it — the emblematic device of the Stolberg counts. The entire composition is rendered in high relief within a plain field, enclosed by a beaded inner border. The surrounding legend reads 'XX•EINE FEINE MARCK NACH DEM CONV•FUSS+1764', indicating the coin's standard of twenty pieces to the fine mark according to the Convention standard, with the date 1764 at the top and the mintmaster's mark 'C' at the base. |
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| Mintage | 1764 C |
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Stolberg-Stolberg's output of 2/3 Thaler pieces reflects the peculiar monetary pragmatism of the smaller German territories in the mid-eighteenth century. The 2/3 Thaler denomination — equivalent to the Gulden — dominated trade in central Germany precisely because it bridged the gap between the heavy full Thaler and the fractional silver that wore out quickly in daily commerce. Frederick Botho and Charles Louis ruled Stolberg-Stolberg jointly, a co-regency arrangement common among the Stolberg family branches that divided and reunited the county repeatedly across the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
The Müseler reference places this firmly within the documented Harz-region mining county issues.