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⅔ Thaler - Max Gandolf von Kuenburg City of Magdeburg, Countermarked
| Issuer | City of Magdeburg |
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| Year | 1676/1681 |
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| Diameter | 37.3 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | MON NOVA CIVITATIS MAGDEBURG 1676 16S81 (Translation: New Currency of the City of Magdeburg.) |
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| Reverse lettering | VERBUM DOMINI MANET.IN AETERNUM C P 2/3 (Translation: The Word of the Lord Forever.) |
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This piece began life as a standard 2/3 Thaler struck under Salzburg Archbishop Max Gandolf von Kuenburg in 1676, then received a Magdeburg municipal countermark in 1681 — a practice the city used to validate and locally authorize foreign silver coinage circulating within its economy. The countermarking of Rhenish and South German 2/3 Thalers was a direct response to the monetary chaos that followed the shift toward the Zinnainische convention and the proliferation of underweight Gulden-equivalents flooding Northern German markets in the 1670s.
The "var" designation against both Zöttl and SG references suggests a die variant not fully catalogued in either standard work.