Issued during Swedish Occupation of the German City.
Obverse: Armoured and draped and laureated bust of Gustavus Adolphus three-quarters right.
Legend: PRINC : FINLAND : DVX ETHO : ET • CARDOM : ING 16 32
Reverse: Crowned and quartered Swedish coat-of-arms within foliage. Pyr of Augsburg City above horseshoe below.
Legend: * STANS ACIE PVGNANS. VINCENS. MORIENSQVE. TRIVMPHAT
Reference: Davenport 4543, Forster 240, KM-A68. R!
Weight: 28.61 gram of Silver
Diameter: 42 mm
Augsburg’s coinage vividly records changes in the city’s leadership during the Thirty Years’ War. This taler was minted in the name of Gustavus Adolphus, the Swedish king who occupied the predominantly Protestant city beginning in 1632. Only a few years after this coin was produced, the Habsburgs recaptured Augsburg, and the city resumed producing coins in the name of the Holy Roman Emperor.