1629 German States Brandenburg-Ansbach Silver Taler Friedrich Albert Christian

Description

1626 German States Brandenburg-Ansbach  Silver Taler Friedrich, Albert and Christian.
Charming detail for 400 years almost primitive style with old silver tone. Diameter 42 mm Weight 29.89 grams.
Extrememly fine details
This concept of featuring the co rulers on the same coinage had its evolution back around 1542 when the Ernestine and Albertine lines of the House of Wettin struck coinage jointly and then similar designs struck in 1591- 1611 for the young Electors of Saxony and
Saxe – Weimar often referred to as the 4 and 8 brother series of talers.
This taler features
Friedrich and his two brothers which were
struck between the years of 1626 and 1629.
It comes not from the Electorate of Brandenburg (later the Kingdom of Prussia) but from Brandenburg-Ansbach, a Hohenzollern enclave west of Bavaria and neighbouring Nuremburg.
Obverse
Description:
Three quarter -length armoured busts of the pre-teenage brothers with full face in lace collars and slash over right shoulder. Date below- split each side of shield- blazon od Burgrave which breaks circular boarder
.
Obverse
Legend
: D: G: FRIDERICVS: ALBERTVS: ET: CHRISTIANVS: FRAT: MARH: BRAND
Translation:
By The Grace of God Frederick Albert and Christian brothers and Margraves of Brandenburg
Reverse Description
:
coat of arms shields.
Reverse
Legend:
PRVS: ST: PO: CA: VA: CR (BOTTOM OF SHEILD) : IA: DVC: BVR: NV: PR:RV
Translation:
Princes of Prussiae Stetini Pomeraniae Cassubiorum Vandalorum Crossenenses Jaegerandorfii Duce Burggravii Nurimbergenses Princeps Rugiae
Catalog reference:
Dav-6236; KM-50.3
Ruler:
Frederick III Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach
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Ruler at time of minting
Sophie of Solms-Laubach
Sophie of Solms-Laubach, was a princess of Solms-Laubach by birth and Margravine of Brandenburg-Ansbach by marriage.
Sophie's parents were Count John George I of Solms-Laubach and Margarethe of Schönburg-Glauchau. She married Margrave Joachim Ernst of Brandenburg-Ansbach in 1612.
After her husband's death in 1625, she took over the reign of the Margraviate of Brandenburg-Ansbach, as guardian and regent for her minor son Frederick. Frederick died in 1634 in the Battle of Nördlingen, shortly after he came of age. Sophie then continued reigning as regent for her son Albert, until he came of age in 1639. She was supported during her reign by Frederick of Solms-Rödelheim.
Frederick of Solms-Rödelheim
Frederick was born as the son of Count John George I of Solms (d. 1600). When his father inheritance was divided in 1607, he received the districts of Rodelheim, Pletenheim and Assenheim. His part of the County of Solms was named Solms-Rödelheim, after the first of these.
He became a professional officer. On those days, officers were sometimes operating as a mercenary leader on behalf of princes or cities, or on their own account.
After the death of the Margrave Joachim Ernest of Brandenburg-Ansbach, he supported the margrave's widow Sophie of Solms- Laubach in the regency, until her son Frederick came of age. After Frederick III's death, he continued so support Sophie in the regency until her second son Albecht came of age on 26 May 1639.
Frederick III, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach
Frederick III, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach
(1 May 1616, Ansbach – 6 September 1634, Nördlingen) was a German nobleman. He was the eldest son of Joachim Ernest, Margrave of Brandenburg, who he succeeded in 1625 at the age of 8. However, at the youthful age of only 18 he was killed at the Battle of Nordlinggen in 1634 unmarried and without issue, meaning he was succeeded by his younger brother Albert II.
The
Battle of Nördlingen
Thirty Year War Battle of  Norglingen in which Frederick III died aged 18
Albert II, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach
Albert II or V of Brandenburg-Ansbach (18 September 1620 – 22 October 1667) was a German prince, who was Margrave Ansbach from 1634 until his death.
Born in Ansbach, Albert was the second son
of
Joachim Ernest, Margrave of Brandenburg
,
(1582–1625) and his wife Sophie  (1594–1651), daughter of John George, Count of Solms-Laubach. On Joachim Ernst's death Albert's elder brother Frederick III succeeded him in Ansbach from 1625 onwards, initially under their mother's guardianship, but he was killed without issue in theThirty Years War in 1634. Albert thus succeeded him, though again the early years of his rule were under his mother's guardianship, only taking up full government responsibilities when his minority ended in 1639.
With much diplomatic skill, he manoeuvred Brandenburg-Ansbach through the last ten years of the war and through administrative reforms, support for the guilds and cultural life and a good credit policy he promoted the beginnings of post-war reconstruction. He offered refuge to religious refugees from Austria and in 1647 or 1662 granted them lands in Treuchtlingen and Berolzheim. Albert's main advisor on this was his former teacher Johannes Limnaus. Active in the politics of the Holy Roman Empire, he sent troops to back the war against the Ottoman Empire. A typical Baroque absolute ruler, he died at Ansbach in 1667. He was buried in the
Johanniskirche
in that city.
Christian Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach
(1623–1633) Died at age 10
Principality of Ansbach
The
Principality of Ansbach
or
Markgraftum Brandenburg-Ansbach
was a
Principality
in the Holy Roman Empire centered on the Bavarian city of Ansbach. The ruling Hohenzollen princes of the land were known as margraves, as the principality was a margraviate (but not a march).
Today it is
located about 25 miles southwest from the celebrated city of Nürnberg and sits in the northern part of Bavaria in an area called Franconia or Franken. Ansbach borders the Franconian Heights Nature Park which has extensive forests and open space and is also a point of interest on the historic German Burgenstrasse or "Castle Road", which extends from Mannheim, Germany to Prague, Czech.
The earliest known resident was a Franconian settler named Onold. Onold established a household around the year 740 AD near the Rezat River, which runs through what is now Ansbach; at that time the area was called Onoldsbach. Not long after, about 748 AD, a Franconian nobleman named Gumbertus established a Benedictine monastery dedicated to the Virgin Mary within the community of Onoldsbach.
In 1331, the Hohenzollern, then Burggraves of Nürnberg, acquired Ansbach and chose the town as their residence. For more than 500 years the town and the surrounding districts were ruled by Hohenzollern Margraves. During that time, Ansbach developed as an international center of crafts and art and came to be known in many parts of the world due to its finely crafted porcelain.
The principality was established at the death of Frederick V Burgrave of Nuremburg, on 21 January 1398, when his lands were partitioned between his two sons. The younger son, Frederick VI, received Ansbach and the elder, John III, received Bayreuth. After John III's death on 11 June 1420, the two principalities were reunited under Frederick VI, who had become Elector Frederick I of Brandenburg in 1415.
Upon Frederick I's death on 21 September 1440, his territories were divided between his sons; John received the principalityof Bayreuth (Brandenburg-Kulmbach), Frederick received Brandenburg, and Albert received Ansbach. Thereafter Ansbach was held by cadet branches of the House of Hohenzollern, and its rulers were commonly called Margraves of Brandenburg-Ansbach.
On 2 December 1791, the reigning Prince and Margrave of Ansbach, Charles Alexander, who had also succeeded to Bayreuth, sold the sovereignty of his principalities to King Frederick William II of Prussia. The Margrave was middle-aged and childless, and Frederick William was his kinsman as the head of the House of Hohenzollern. The Margrave moved to England with his English second wife. Ansbach was formally annexed on 28 January 1792.
Official blazon
The Principality of Ansbach (German: Fürstentum Ansbach) or Margraviate Brandenburg-Ansbach (German : Markgraftum Brandenburg-Ansbach) was a principality in the Holy Roman Empire centered on the Bavarian city of Ansbach. The ruling Hohenzollern princes of the land were known as margraves, as the principality was a margraviate.
The principality was established at the death of Burgrave Frederick V of Nurnberg on 21 January 1398, when his lands were partitioned between his two sons. The younger son, Frederick VI, received Ansbach and the elder, John III, received Bayreuth. After John III's death on 11 June 1420, the two principalities were reunited under Frederick VI, who had become Elector Frederick I of Brandenburg in 1415.
Upon Frederick I's death on 21 September 1440, his territories were divided between his sons; John received Bayreuth (Brandenburg-Kulmbach), Frederick received Brandenburg, and Albert received Ansbach. Thereafter Ansbach was held by several branches of the House of Hohenzollern, and its rulers were commonly called Margraves of Brandenburg-Ansbach.
On 2 December 1791, the reigning Prince and Margrave of Ansbach, Christian Frederick, who had also succeeded to Bayreuth, sold the sovereignty of his principalities to King Frederick William II of Prussia, and Ansbach was formally annexed to Prussia on 28 January 1792.
The arms of the principality have always been very complex. The original arms are supposedly been black double-tailed, red crowned, lion on a golden field, but already from very early on, the Princes have quartered these arms with all the (former) territories in their possession, as well and claims to different territories. This resulted in complex arms as shown above, which shows the arms in the early 18th century.
After 1769 the arms became even more complex, with 33 fields and 13 helmets and crests. These new arms included claims of dioceses and other territories, which were often actually held by other branches of the Hohenzollern dynastty.
Taler
German silver
dollar
. Name derived from the Joachimsthaler
guldengroschen
first coined by the counts of Schlick at Joachimsthal, Bohemia, in 1519. The
thaler
(
guldengroschen
), first coined at Hall, Tyrol, in 1484, with a gross weight of 31.94 grams 0.939 fine, shrank so that by 1873 when it was discontinued it weighed but 18.4 grams 0.906 fine.
Typical Mint in 1600s
The outside of the mill. Big wooden wheel under the waterfall. It turns by means of water running
Mill wheel
The wheel rotates the arbor connected to three heavy hammers for coining. The oven can be seen to the left.
Cangs were made here – they are ingots of silver of the needed mark of assay. They were burnt and beaten out to the needed thickness; then planchets were cut with the help of tinsnips. Ready-made coin circles were matched and then corrected by weight.
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