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Principality of Bayreuth (Brandenburg-Kulmbach)

An immediate territory of the Holy Roman Empire ruled by the Franconian branch of the House of Hohenzollern.

Kind: principality
Region: Western Europe, Europe

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Taler, emergency coin for the army of Margrave Albert of Brandenburg-Kulmbach, struck shortly after the Treaty of Passau, possibly during the siege of Schweinfurt

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

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Taler, emergency coin for the army of Margrave Albert of Brandenburg-Kulmbach, struck shortly after the Treaty of Passau, possibly during the siege of Schweinfurt

1553

Single-sided, nearly diamond-shaped emergency coin. Obverse: a rectangular stamp: eagle facing left in cartouche beneath letters A, M, Z, and B above date. Reverse: blank. The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, holds this object as NG-VG-4-17; its record gives material recorded as silver (metal); technique striking (metalworki…

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