1/2 Thaler Konventionshalbtaler

Nuremberg struck this half thaler in 1760 at a moment when the city's autonomy was under sustained financial pressure from the Seven Years' War. As a free imperial city, Nuremberg was obligated to contribute to imperial war levies while maintaining its own coinage — a costly double burden that pushed municipal finances to the edge throughout the conflict. The Konventionstaler standard, adopted by Austria and Bavaria in 1753, had by this point become the expected basis for south German silver coinage, and Nuremberg's conformity here was as much political signaling as monetary policy.

The Slg. Erl reference ties this piece to the Erlanger collection, one of the more systematically documented assemblages of Nuremberg civic coinage.