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⅔ Thaler - Frederick William
| Issuer | Brandenburg-Prussia, State of |
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| Year | 1672-1673 |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Obverse lettering | FRID WILH D G M BR S R IMP ELEC |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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The 2/3 Thaler denomination — equivalent to a Gulden — emerged as a direct response to the monetary chaos following the Thirty Years' War, when the Holy Roman Empire's fragmented coinage system made a coin pegged to the popular Dutch guilder commercially attractive. Brandenburg-Prussia adopted the format aggressively in the early 1670s under Frederick William, the Great Elector, partly to finance his shifting military alliances during the Franco-Dutch War, which began in 1672.
KM#422 spans a two-year emission, suggesting continuous production pressure rather than a single authorized striking.