1/2 Thaler - John George, Peter Ernest, John Albert, John Hoyer and Bruno

Mansfeld-Eisleben's coinage from this period reflects the county's fractured inheritance structure — by the 1570s, the Mansfeld comital line had subdivided so thoroughly among competing branches that five co-rulers appear on a single half thaler. The arrangement was legally binding under the county's partition agreements but administratively chaotic, and the Holy Roman Emperor repeatedly pressured the Mansfeld counts to consolidate. They never did, and the county was eventually sequestered by electoral Saxony in 1580 for accumulated debts — making 1579 virtually the last year this particular configuration of joint authority could issue coinage at all.