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⅙ Thaler - John Philip of Walderdorff
| Issuer | Archbishopric of Trier |
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| Year | 1757-1758 |
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| Weight | 4.6 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin (cursive) |
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| Reverse lettering | VI EINEN THALER 1757 N·M· |
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John Philip of Walderdorff served as Archbishop-Elector of Trier from 1756 until his death in 1768, and this fractional thaler falls squarely in the early years of his tenure — a period dominated by the Seven Years' War, which devastated the Rhineland economically and militarily. Trier's position along the Moselle made it a thoroughfare for French and Prussian troop movements alike, and small silver fractions like this one were essential for the kind of daily transactions that larger denominations couldn't accommodate in a disrupted economy.
The two-year emission window of 1757–1758 suggests a short-run response to wartime monetary pressure rather than a routine issue.