1 Thaler - Maximilian III Ensisheim

Features

Issuer	Landgraviate of Upper Alsace (Austrian States)
Landgrave	Maximilian III (1605-1618)
Type	Standard circulation coins
Year	1616
Value	1 Thaler
Currency	Thaler (1425-1634)
Composition	Silver
Weight	28.5 g
Diameter	40 mm
Shape	Round
Orientation	Medal alignment ↑↑
Demonetized	Yes
Number	N# 576817
References	KM# 279.1 Standard Catalog of World Coins (86 volumes). , KLEM# 42 Klemetsch Helmut; 2009. Die vorderösterreichische Münzstätte Ensisheim 1584-1632. Self-published, Vienna, Austria. , Dav EC II# 3326 var John Stewart Davenport; 1974. European Crowns 1600-1700. Self-published, Galesburg, Illinois, United States. , Hahn# 25b Wolfgang Reinhard Otto Hahn; 1971. Typenkatalog der Münzen der bayerischen Herzöge und Kurfürsten 1506-1805 = Type Catalogue of the Coins of the Bavarian Dukes and Electors 1506-1805. Klinkhardt & Biermann, Braunschweig, Lower Saxony, Germany. , Vogelhuber# 121/II var Rudolf Vogelhuber; 1971. Taler und Schautaler des Erzhauses Habsburg: von Erzherzog Sigismund v. Tirol 1484 bis Kaiser Franz Josef I. 1896. Dr. Busso Peus Nachfolger, Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany.

Obverse

Smaller portrait right, armoured and draped with lion head on the shoulder looking back, vertical date in front, within a beaded inner circle.

Script: Latin

Lettering:
+MAXIMILIANVS D G ARCH AV DV BV STIR CARIN
1616

Unabridged legend: Maximilianus Dei Gratia Archidux Austriae Dux Burgundiae Styriae Carinthiae

Translation: Maximilian, by the grace of God, Archduke of Austria, Duke of Burgundy, Styria, Carinthia...

Reverse

Crowned shield with coat of arms with cross of the Teutonic Order (in 1 Hungary, in 2 Bohemia, in 3 Austria and Ancient Burgundy, in 4 Prussia and Habsburg, Tyrol at center), small crowned shields of Upper Alsace and Ferrette on sides. Thin plain inner circle.

Script: Latin

Lettering: ET CARN MAG PRVSS ADM LAND ALS CO FER

Unabridged legend: Et Carniolae Magisterii Prussiae Administrator Landgravii Alsatiae Comes Ferretae

Translation: ... and Carniola, Administrator of the Magister of Prussia, Landgrave of Alsace, Count of Ferrette.

Mint

Ensisheim, France (1583)

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Date					VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
1616

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