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1/3 Thaler - Maximilian I
| Issuer | Bavaria, Electorate of |
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| Year | 1625 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse description | Crowned oval baroque cartouche bearing the quartered arms of Bavaria and the Palatinate, with a central escutcheon of the imperial orb. The collar of the Order of the Golden Fleece suspends below the shield. The fractional value (1/3) appears in a small oval at the bottom of the design. The surrounding legend identifies the issuer in abbreviated Latin. The overall composition is rendered in the ornate baroque heraldic style characteristic of early seventeenth-century Bavarian coinage. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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1625 places this coin squarely in the opening years of Maximilian I's electoral dignity — a title he had extracted from the Emperor Ferdinand II as direct payment for his military support during the Bohemian phase of the Thirty Years' War. The transfer of the Electoral title from the Palatinate branch of the Wittelsbachs to the Bavarian branch, formalized in 1623, was constitutionally explosive, and Maximilian's mints moved quickly to assert the new rank in silver. The 1/3 Thaler denomination itself was a product of the monetary chaos gripping the Reich during the Kipper- und Wipperzeit, when debasement had made smaller fractional coinage both commercially necessary and politically loaded.