1/2 Thaler - Gebhard VII, John George I and Peter Ernest I

Mansfeld's silver output in the 1550s was inseparable from its copper mines — among the most productive in the Holy Roman Empire — which funded the county's ambitions and its perpetual dynastic quarrels simultaneously. This joint issue names three counts ruling concurrently under the partitioned inheritance system that fragmented Mansfeld authority across multiple lines throughout the sixteenth century. Gebhard VII, John George I, and Peter Ernest I represented the Schraplau partition specifically.

The Tornau reference numbers 932 through 934 indicate at least four documented die varieties across this three-year span, suggesting consistent but not high-volume production.