1/2 Thaler

Einbeck's minting activity in the 1620s falls squarely within the most chaotic phase of the Thirty Years' War, when municipal authorities across the Holy Roman Empire scrambled to produce coinage as supply chains collapsed and military contributions drained civic treasuries. The city had a long history of independent minting rights, and these half thalers were struck under conditions of acute regional instability — Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel forces occupied parts of Lower Saxony repeatedly during this period.

KM#25 is sparsely documented in the major references, and survivors tend to appear in heavily circulated states, consistent with wartime hoarding and re-melt pressure on silver.