1/2 Thaler - Henry

By 1774, the Mansfeld mining districts had been in terminal decline for over a century, their famous copper and silver seams largely exhausted after sustaining one of the Holy Roman Empire's most prolific minting traditions since the medieval period. The Bornstedt line issued coins well past the point of economic justification — partly prestige, partly the lingering legal privileges of imperial immediacy that smaller German counties clung to even as consolidation pressures mounted from larger neighbors.

Henry was among the last counts to exercise that minting right in any meaningful volume. This half thaler dates to just years before the line's coining activity effectively ceased.