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⅔ Thaler - John Eitel II
| Issuer | Imperial City of Friedberg (Burgraviate) |
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| Year | 1747 |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Obverse lettering | MONETA CASTRI IMP. FRIDBERG. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Friedberg's status as a Free Imperial City coexisted uneasily with the hereditary claims of the Solms-Rödelheim family, who held the burgraviate as a distinct jurisdiction within the same walls — a constitutional oddity the Holy Roman Empire tolerated through sheer procedural inertia. John Eitel II ruled as burgrave during a period when such layered sovereignty was already an anachronism, and coinage in his name was itself a political assertion as much as a monetary convenience.
The two-thirds thaler denomination was essentially a north German commercial standard, widely used after the Leipzig Convention of 1690 fixed it at 1/3 of a Reichstaler's superior equivalent.