1⁄12 Thaler - Louis Gustav

Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schilingsfürst was among the smallest of the Holy Roman Empire's immediate territories — a county whose ruling line had fractured repeatedly through inheritance partitions across the seventeenth century. Louis Gustav ruled during a period when such micro-states were minting their own fractions largely to assert juridical independence rather than meet any genuine monetary demand. The 1/12 Thaler denomination placed it within the Zwoelfer system, a fractional standard that the Kreis assemblies had repeatedly tried to regulate without much success.