1⁄64 Thaler Piedfort

A piedfort of a 1/64 thaler is an unusual object. Piedforts at this denomination were almost certainly presentation or trial pieces — the 1/64 thaler was itself a tiny circulating coin, and doubling its thickness at standard diameter produces something too thick for practical use but too small for display. Lübeck's late-16th-century municipal finances were under persistent strain from the city's declining position in Baltic trade as Dutch and English competitors eroded Hanseatic dominance.

Behr 434a is a rare citation.