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1/3 Thaler - John Martin I
| Issuer | Stolberg-Stolberg, County of |
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| Year | 1669 |
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| Value | ⅓ Thaler |
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| Obverse description | A stag passant to the left occupies the central field, with a crowned heraldic column (the Stolberg pillar) rising behind it on a pedestal, the mintmaster's initials ABK or IA appearing in the exergue. The surrounding circular legend in Latin reads the titles of Count Johann Martin I of Stolberg-Stolberg, running clockwise around the periphery. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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John Martin I ruled Stolberg-Stolberg jointly with his brother Christoph Ludwig I under the partition arrangements that fragmented the Stolberg territories across multiple lines throughout the seventeenth century. The 1669 date places this issue in the middle of a period when the county's finances were still recovering from the devastation of the Thirty Years' War, which had ended only two decades prior and left much of the Harz region economically hollowed out.
The 1/3 Thaler denomination — equivalent to 8 Groschen — was a practical workaround for a county too small to sustain a full Thaler coinage with any regularity.