1⁄16 Thaler - Jobst Edmund of Brabeck

Jobst Edmund of Brabeck governed the Bishopric of Hildesheim from 1688 until his death in 1702, navigating the diocese through the turbulent aftermath of the Great Turkish War and the persistent pressure of Louis XIV's reunification policies along the Rhine frontier. The small silver fractions issued under his name served the practical demands of a territory that had spent much of the previous century economically disrupted by the Thirty Years' War and its long recovery. Hildesheim's mint activity under Brabeck was modest and compressed into relatively brief windows, which accounts for the tight date range on this type.