Palm tree coin

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2/3 Thaler ("palm tree gulden"), Principality of Calenberg, Johann Friedrich 1677 (Welter 1728) 2/3 Thaler ("palm tree gulden"), Principality of Calenberg, Johann Friedrich 1677 (Welter 1728)
2/3 Thaler ("palm tree gulden"), Principality of Calenberg , Johann Friedrich 1677 ( Welter 1728)

Palm tree talers , palm tree gulden etc. are coins mostly from the 17th century from northern Germany, which show a palm tree on the reverse.

In the coinage of the princes of Waldeck and the Fulda Abbey , the palm tree is weighted down with a stone; with those of Prince Johann Friedrich von Braunschweig-Calenberg , he stands on an island in the sea, flanked by two ships.

The latter exist in many variants as pieces of 2/3 Thaler ("palm tree gulden"), 1/3 Thaler and XXIV Mariengroschen , which differed in the text and arrangement of the legends as well as in the illustrations due to the hand-made stamps at the time.

The palm was a symbol of strength and resilience.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Tyll Kroha : Large encyclopedia of numismatics . Bertelsmann Lexikon Verlag, Gütersloh 1997, p. 342 .
  2. ↑ Gerhard Welter : The coins of the Guelphs since Heinrich the Lion . tape 1 . Klinkhardt & Biermann, Braunschweig 1971, p. 248 .

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