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1 Thaler - Francis William of Wartenberg Klippe; Siege Coinage

Features

Issuer City of Osnabrück (German States)
Type Emergency coinage › Siege coins
Conflict Thirty Years' War (1618-1648)
Year 1633
Value 1 Thaler
Currency Thaler
Composition Silver
Weight 28.95 g
Shape Klippe
Technique Klippe
Demonetized Yes
Number
N#
238914
References KM# 33
Standard Catalog of World Coins (86 volumes).
, Kennepohl# 215
Karl Kennepohl. Die Münzen von Osnabrück (2 volumes).
, Maillet# 1
Prosper Mailliet; 1868. Atlas de monnaies obsidionales et de nécessité. Imprimeur Gobbaerts, Brussels, Belgium.
, Korchnak# 471
Lawrence C. Korchnak; 2021. Siege Coins of the World 1453-1902. Classical Numismatic Group, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States.

Obverse

St. Peter standing behind shield of 4-fold arms, holding key and book, divides date.

Script: Latin

Reverse

Blank.

Mint

Osnabrück, Germany

Comments

As part of their campaigns in Germany during the Thirty Years War, the Swedes, under the command of Axel Gustafsson Oxenstierna and Gustav Horn, besieged the Catholic city of Osnabrück in 1633.

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
1633 

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