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Germany German States NGC GERMANY Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel. Christian Taler 1622 NGC AU 53, Lippstadt mint, KM26 (under Halberstadt), Dav 6320. An immensely engaging type from the early stages of the Thirty Years' War, minted with silver looted from the treasury of Paderborn cathedral. Commonly known as Pffafenfeindtaler (Enemy of Pope Taler”), Christian intended for such coins to be used to pay for the services of Protestant Swedish troops, leaving remarkably few to survive to the present in any kind of meaningful condition. ”