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⅔ Thaler - Hoyer Christof II 100th Anniversary of the Naumburg Confession
| Issuer | Mansfeld-Eisleben, County of |
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| Year | 1661 |
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| Value | ⅔ Thaler |
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| Reverse description | A detailed panoramic cityscape of Eisleben occupies the upper field, depicting church spires, towers, gabled roofthouses, and surrounding trees rendered in fine engraving against a open sky with decorative cloud motifs at the apex. Below the cityscape, the quartered arms of the County of Mansfeld are displayed on a baroque-style shield flanked by foliate scrollwork. A continuous Gothic-script legend encircles the entire design, referencing the Word of God and the Lutheran confession, separated by decorative stops. |
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| Reverse lettering | GOTTES WORT BLEIBT EWIG · NIMMEHR · FLEBIE · |
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The Naumburg Confession of 1561 was a failed attempt by Lutheran princes to sidestep the emerging Formula of Concord disputes by reaffirming the Augsburg Confession — it satisfied almost no one and was largely abandoned within years. That the Mansfeld-Eisleben line chose to commemorate its centennial in 1661 reflects the county's stubborn confessional identity during a period when the Peace of Westphalia had only just stabilized the denominational map of the Empire thirteen years prior.
Hoyer Christoph II ruled a county already fragmented by the notoriously complex Mansfeld inheritance divisions that had plagued the family for over a century.