1/2 Thaler Konventionstaler

Augsburg's 1760 half-thaler falls squarely in the middle of the Seven Years' War, a conflict that placed enormous fiscal strain on the free imperial cities. Augsburg, as a major commercial center with established banking houses — Fugger wealth had long since dispersed, but the city's financial infrastructure remained — was expected to contribute to imperial war funding while managing its own currency independently.

The Konventionstaler standard itself dated from the 1753 Munich Convention between Austria and Bavaria, fixing the thaler at 10 per Cologne mark of silver. Augsburg's adoption kept its coinage interoperable with the broader south German monetary zone.