1/4 Thaler

Nuremberg's quarter thalers of this period were struck against the backdrop of the Thirty Years' War, which brought the city under severe economic and military pressure throughout the 1630s. Swedish forces under Gustav Adolf used Nuremberg as a base of operations in 1632, and the prolonged encampment — along with the Imperial siege that followed — disrupted trade networks the city had depended on for two centuries. Coin production became as much a fiscal necessity as a commercial one.

KM#80 spans a decade-plus run, suggesting continuous if not always consistent output from the city mint. Kellner's attribution 292 places it firmly within the municipal series rather than the emergency coinage produced during the siege years.