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⅙ Thaler - Maximilian I
| Issuer | Electorate of Bavaria |
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| Year | 1625-1638 |
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| Currency | Thaler (1623-1752) |
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| Obverse description | Central field displays the quartered arms of Bavaria and the Palatinate within an ornate shield surmounted by an Electoral bonnet crown, flanked by the heraldic lion of the Palatinate to the left and the Bavarian lozengy arms to the right. The shield is encircled by a decorative wreath or beaded inner border. The denomination mark '1/6' appears at the base of the design within the inner circle. The surrounding legend reads MAX. CO. P. R. V. BA. D. S. - R. I. ARCHID. ET. EL. with the date 1625, identifying Maximilian I as Count Palatine of the Rhine, Duke of Bavaria, Archduke and Elector of the Holy Roman Empire. |
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| Reverse lettering | CLYPEVS OMNIBVS IN TE SPERANTIBVS. |
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Maximilian I received the electoral dignity in 1623 as direct payment for his military support of Ferdinand II during the Bohemian crisis — the transfer of the Palatinate electorate to Bavaria was among the most contentious political acts of the Thirty Years' War. These fractions were workhorses of Bavarian commerce during that conflict, when silver supply was perpetually disrupted by wartime requisition and the broader Kipper und Wipper debasement crisis that had only recently subsided.
The Wittelsbach mint at Munich struck this denomination across a fourteen-year span, an unusually long continuous run for a fractional type under wartime fiscal pressure.