1 Albus - John William

John William, Elector Palatine, died in June 1716 having spent his reign attempting to restore Catholic dominance in the Palatinate — a campaign that brought him into sustained conflict with Protestant estates and neighboring powers still raw from the Thirty Years' War settlements. The albus was a small regional silver denomination with deep roots in the Rhineland monetary tradition, its name derived from the Latin for white, distinguishing silver coins from billon.

Production across 1711–1713 coincided with the final years of the War of the Spanish Succession, when Rhenish mints were under considerable fiscal pressure to keep small change in circulation.