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1547, German States, Kempten (Imperial City). Rare Silver Thaler Coin. Damaged VF!

Mint Year: 1547 Denomination:  Thaler References: Davenport 9365, MB#44 ($650 in VF!) Condition: Large scrape in reverse, minor dark oxidation-deposits, mint-made planchet striea in obverse, otherwise VF! Weight: 28.92gm Diameter: 40mm Material: Silver

Obverse: Crowned and armored half-lenght bust of Emperor Charles V right shouldering scepter. Legend: * CAROLVS : V : ROMA : IMPER : SEMPER : AVG

Reverse: Crowned Imperial coat-of-arms, surrounded by three shields (Burgundy/Kampen/Habsburg) separated by by three sparkling fire irons (symbol of the Habsburg Dynasty). Legend: MON : NOVA . CIVITATIS : CAMPIDO : 1547 . (privy mark)

Kempten is the largest town of Allgäu, in Swabia, Bavaria, Germany. The population was about 68,000 in 2016. The area was possibly settled originally by Celts, but was later taken over by the Romans, who called the town Cambodunum. Kempten is the oldest urban settlement (town) in Germany.

Around 700 a monastery — Kempten Abbey — was built, the first in the Allgäu region, founded by two Benedictine monks from the Abbey of Saint Gall, Magnus von Füssen and Theodor. Audogar was the first abbot of the new Benedictine monastery. Through the financial and lobbyist support of Charlemagne’s wife Hildegard, an Allemannic princess, the monastery managed to become one of the most privileged of the Frankish Empire.

After several ravages by the Magyars, Ulrich of Augsburg, bishop of Augsburg and also abbot of Kempten, began the rebuilding of the monastery and the city in 941.

In 1213, Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II declared the abbots members of the Reichstag and granted the abbot the right to bear the title of Duke. However in 1289, King Rudolf I of Germany also granted special privileges to the urban settlement in the river valley, making it the Free Imperial City of Kempten. In 1525 the last property rights of the abbots in the Imperial City were sold in the so-called "Great Purchase", marking the start of the co-existence of two independent cities bearing the same name next to each other. More conflict arose after the Imperial City converted to Protestantism in direct opposition to the Catholic monastery (and Free City) in 1527.

During the turmoil of the Thirty Years' War (1632–33), both cities were destroyed by the imperial forces and the Swedish troops respectively.

In 1652 Roman Giel of Gielsberg, the Abbot of Kempten, commissioned the architects Michael Beer and Johann Serrofrom Graubünden to build St. Lorenz Basilica as a new church to serve the parish and monastery, including a representative residence for the Duke-Abbots. This is acknowledged as the first large church built in Germany after the end of the Thirty Years' War.

During the Napoleonic Wars the Duke-Abbey and Imperial City came under Bavarian rule (1802–03). Finally, in 1819, the two rival cities were united into a single communal entity.