1627, Nurnberg (Free City), Ferdinand II. Beautiful Silver Thaler Coin. Mint Year: 1627 Denomination: Thaler Mint Master: G. Mint Place: Nuremberg (as free City within the Holy Roman Empire). Certified and graded by NGC as AU Details: Cleaned! Weight: 28.11gm Diameter: 43mm Material: Silver Obverse: Triple foliaged coat-of-arms with within inner circle. Date (16-27) split in fields. Reverse: Imperial double-headed nimbate eagle within inner circle. D : G : ROMAN : IMPER : SEMP : AVGVST. Is a city situated on the Pegnitz river and the Rhine-Main-Danube Canal. It is located about 170 kilometres north of Munich. The cultural flowering of Nuremberg in the 15th and 16th centuries made it the center of the German Renaissance. In 1525, Nuremberg accepted the Protestant Reformation, and in 1532, the religious Peace of Nuremberg, by which the Lutherans gained important concessions, was signed there. In 1632 during the Thirty Years’ War, the city, occupied by the forces of Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, was besieged by the army of Imperial general Albrecht von Wallenstein. The expansion of the ongoing acts of rebellion against his Imperial Governors in Bohemia on May 23rd, 1618 directly triggered the Thirty Years’ War, and can be blamed on his religious intolerance toward Protestants. A devout and very pious Catholic, his recognition as King of Bohemia and suppression of Protestantism precipitated the early events of the Thirty Years’ War, and he remained one of the staunchest backers of the Anti-Protestant Counter Reformation efforts as one of the heads of the German Catholic League, prolonging the Thirty Years’ Wars by insisting the Edict of Restitution be enforced. The duration of his reign was occupied by confessional and military concerns, and some historians blame him for the large civilian loss of life in the Sack of Magdeburg in 1631, as he’d instructed Count Tilly to enforce the edict upon Saxonyhis orders causing Tilly to move the Catholic armies east, ultimately to Leipzig, where they suffered their first substantial defeat at First Breitenfeld. The item “1627, Nurnberg (Free City), Ferdinand II. Beautiful Silver Thaler Coin. NGC AU+” is in sale since Friday, December 3, 2021. This item is in the category “Coins & Paper Money\Coins\ World\Europe\Germany\Empire (1871-1918)”. The seller is “coinworldtv” and is located in Wien. This item can be shipped worldwide.
- Country/Region of Manufacture: Germany
- Certification: NGC
- Grade: Ungraded
- Year: 1627
- Composition: Silver
- Denomination: Thaler
- KM Number: 88