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Thaler - Immobilization in the name of Charles V 2nd type
| Issuer | Besançon, Free imperial city of |
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| Year | 1658-1675 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse description | Full-length effigy of Emperor Charles V, armored and crowned, facing right, holding an orb in his left hand and a scepter in his right. The imperial figure stands in a formal, frontal-facing pose within the coin field, with the date divided on either side of the figure. The surrounding legend in Latin is separated from the central device by a plain inner border. |
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| Obverse lettering | CAROLVS.QVINT. ROM.IMPERATOR. 16 / 63 (Translation: Charles V, emperor of the Romans.) |
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Besançon, though technically a Free Imperial City under Habsburg suzerainty, had long operated with a striking degree of monetary autonomy. The city's thalers were "immobilized" in the name of Charles V — who had died in 1558 — as a deliberate legal fiction, allowing Besançon to continue minting without acknowledging the authority of successive emperors over its coinage. This arrangement suited both parties well enough that it persisted for over a century after Charles's death.
The city lost this privilege permanently in 1674 when Louis XIV seized Besançon during the Franco-Comtois War, formally annexing it to France the following year by the Treaty of Nijmegen in 1678.