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Joachimstalerstrasse or Joachimsthalerstrasse is the name for a Guldengroschen from Jáchymov (now Jáchymov / Czech Republic) in Bohemia. Your name received the Joachimstalerstrasse after minting. One side of the Joachimstalerstrasse shows Saint Joachim and the arms of the Counts of Schlick; the other shows a double- tailed and crowned Bohemian lion. A possible resolution of the inscription on the front reads: Arma Dominorum Slickorum Stephani et Fratrum Comitum de Bassano ( Numismatic Berlin).

The importance of Joachim thaler, shortened in German for Thaler, is particularly good at the acquisition of the word in other languages ​​. In each case, only one half of the word has been adopted. From the second part of the word derived from dolary Czech, Polish talar, Italian and English Tallero dollar. From the first part of that Joachim derived Joachimico Italian, French Jocondales, Polish Joachimik, Russian Jefimik.

History

The embossing of the Joachimstalerstrasse was prompted by the Counts of Schlick. They knew that to achieve minted from silver, a significantly higher profit made ​​as bullion with silver, because before the counts had their silver exported to the Middle Franconian city of Nuremberg.

The first Joachimstalerstrasse are in the vaulted cellars of the castle Freudenstein (southwest of Joachimsthal ) have been beaten (still without official permission ) end 1519. In this context, the mint master Stephan mixture, Nuremberg, and Utz Gebhart, Leipzig, called.

Johannes Mathesius, theologian and Latin teacher in Joachimsthal, wrote in his Chronica of the Keys Protean Freyen mountain town Joachimsthal Sanct ... for the year 1518: " Diss year you here in the first place gemüntzet the old Joachimsthalerstrasse ".

Georgius Agricola and John Miesel argued, however, for the year 1519 as the beginning of embossing. The work Miesels from the 18th century deserves special attention because the author was able to use the then existing hand-written chronicle of the mountain Captain Heinrich von Könritz. So Miesel writes, for example, that the first Schlicksche mint of Henry of Könritz was set up in the house of a Kunz Eirolt in Joachimsthal.

Officially allowed only a Bohemian Landtag decision of January 9, 1520 Count Schlick minting "major penny worth of Rhenish gold florin, and his half of his neighborhood ."

The Saxon dukes had been informed in advance about the plans of Count Schlick. Thus we read in a letter dated 28 February 1520 "... and ufzurichten a newe Muntz and let muntzen considered the slick, namely, dimes, the guilders, half florins and a place to Gelden. " Reconstruction of the Eirolt ' between the house to the coin was certainly completed before the June 21, 1520, because this date Stephan Schlick writes the Saxon princes: " and after I smite Stephan Schlick for me, my dear brother, my heirs and descendants and ir itzunder aigene Muntz raised ... " in the course of this letter he asks the Saxon electors to ensure that the Joachimstalerstrasse in Saxony " " should be, with the reference to " ganghaftig were the princes of Saxony meal and grain embossed "uf. Frederick the Wise corresponds on July 3, 1520 this petition.

Quarters and half dollars were and are rare. 1520 also a few double and even triple crowns were minted. In 1526, also at 1 1/ 2 Gulden ( 43.27 g). One such piece was auctioned in May 2012 in Prague ( Praha Aurea Numismatics ).

Model for the Joachimstalerstrasse both in weight and in fine weight (later also called hooded pounds), which was first coined in 1500, the Saxon Guldengroschen. In contrast to this can be found on the Joachimstalerstrasse already the year numbers 1520, 1525, 1526, 1527 and 1528th

From 1526 Joachimstalerstrasse have also been marked in a second mint; probably in Schlaggenwald ( Slavkov ). The thesis of a dislocation Joachimsthalerstrasse mint is not shared by all experts in numismatics. It is based on the presence of four Münzmeistern in 1526th From 1526, we know two guys who they answer to the present day. In one type, an orb, instead of the Münzmeisterzeichens to see. In the other type, although the Münzmeisterzeichen of the wolf is to see fall, rather than the separation between words are here four coat of arms can be seen. A specimen of this type was the end of January 1982 in Basel auctioned (Swiss Bank Corporation, coins and medals, 11th Auction, No 1140 ).

Münzmeisterzeichen Joachim Thaler ( 1519 /20 to 1528):

• Cross on horizontal Crescent: Utz ( Ulrich) Gebhart - no date, 1520, 1526, 1527, 1528
• Sechsstrahliger star: Hans Weizelmann - no date, 1525, 1526
• Arabesque: Wolf fall - without years 1525, 1526, 1527
• Lily: Kaspar Mergenthal - 1526, 1527

Number of Joachimstalerstrasse

In the literature it is claimed that more than 2 million Joachimstalerstrasse had been coined. That might be true. So allegedly beaten (including sections ) from May 1520 to April 1528, 2.1 million Joachimstalerstrasse. Should this information be true, one can expect the entire embossing period (late 1519 to early 1528) with nearly 2.2 million Joachimstalerstrasse (including sections ).

1519 have been captured since the coinage did not begin until the end of the year with only a few security Joachimstalerstrasse. 1525 was due to an uprising Joachimsthalerstrasse Knappschaft a negative impact on the coinage.

The embossing of the Joachimstalerstrasse was discontinued in the spring of 1528 at the instigation of the Bohemian King and later Emperor Ferdinand I..