1 Albus - Anselm Casimir Wamboldt of Umstadt

Anselm Casimir Wamboldt of Umstadt governed Mainz through some of the most destructive years of the Thirty Years' War, watching Swedish and Imperial forces contest the Rhineland repeatedly. He died in 1647, just months before the Peace of Westphalia concluded the conflict his entire episcopate had been shaped by. Small silver fractions like this Albus were struck in conditions of profound monetary disruption — decades of wartime debasement had so thoroughly degraded circulating coinage across the Holy Roman Empire that even modest silver pieces held practical value well above their face.