1/2 Thaler

Frankfurt's half thaler issues of 1670–71 fall within a period when the city's mint was navigating the persistent tension between imperial coinage standards and local commercial demands. The Free City held minting rights as an imperial prerogative but was subject to the Reichsmünzordnung, and enforcement of those standards was erratic enough that Frankfurt's output during this decade shows measurable weight variation across dies.

JuF#560 is the Jungk and Fellner reference — the authoritative catalog for Frankfurt municipal coinage — placing this piece firmly within documented civic production rather than the trade-oriented bracteate tradition the city had long since abandoned.