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1/3 Thaler - Frederick William
| Issuer | Brandenburg-Prussia, State of |
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| Year | 1668-1675 |
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| Currency | Thaler (1618-1701) |
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| Obverse description | Laureate and draped bust of Elector Frederick William (the Great Elector) facing right, his long flowing curled hair falling over his shoulder, wearing armour partially visible beneath a draped mantle. A mint master's mark (H·S) appears at the base of the bust. The surrounding Latin legend reads: FRID. WILH. D. G. M. B. S. R. I. ARC. & EL. H.S., identifying him as Margrave of Brandenburg, Arch-Chancellor and Elector of the Holy Roman Empire. The portrait is executed in the Baroque style typical of mid-17th-century German electoral coinage. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Frederick William — the "Great Elector" — issued this denomination during the period immediately following his consolidation of ducal Prussia, secured through the 1657 Treaty of Wehlau and confirmed at Oliva in 1660. The 1/3 Thaler was a distinctly north German denomination, gaining traction as trade coinage during the later seventeenth century when the full Thaler was too large for ordinary commercial transactions. Brandenburg's mints at this time were operating under the Zinnaische Münzfuß, the coinage standard established at the 1667 Zinna convention.