Brandenburg-Prussian thaler
The Prussian thaler continued an older Brandenburg account before giving way to the German mark.
- Earlier account history
- Documented in the seventeenth century; formation date uncertain
- 1750 account
- 1 thaler = 24 groschen
- Later conversion
- 1 thaler = 3 marks
- Ancestry branch
- Prussian thaler
Its place in the family
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Brandenburg-Prussian thaler
Saxon–Bohemian silver-thaler reckoning
Rhenish gold-gulden reckoning
Florentine gold-florin reckoning
Earlier ancestry is not established here.
The story
Brandenburg and Saxony agreed new coinage arrangements at Zinna in 1667. Specie coins and the circulating accounting thaler subsequently had to be distinguished. [1]
The 1750 reform issued a coin corresponding to the existing account. The later mark conversion therefore ended a much older thaler history. [1] [2]
Turning points
Coin and account aligned
The Prussian reform coins the existing 24-groschen accounting thaler. [1]
Sources and evidence
- Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Münzkabinett · Brandenburg-Preußen: Friedrich Wilhelm, 1679, object 18214596; Deutsche Bundesbank · Deutsche Taler: Vom Dreißigjährigen Krieg bis zum Ende der Talerprägung (foreword 1967)
- Deutsche Bundesbank · Purchasing power comparisons — history of German money
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