1 Batzen - Eberhard IV of Eppstein-Königstein

Eberhard IV of Eppstein-Königstein held the Augsburg bishopric from 1508 until his death in 1535, a tenure marked by the opening salvos of the Reformation — Luther's 95 Theses appeared in 1517, squarely within this coin's striking window. The Batzen denomination itself was a relatively recent innovation at this point, having emerged from Swiss and south German mints in the 1490s as a practical response to chronic shortages of mid-value silver coinage.

The Forst/Schm 339 reference places this among a small documented group for the type.