1 Batzen - George III

The Landgraviate of Leuchtenberg was among the smallest and most financially precarious of the Bavarian-adjacent territories, and its coinage output was correspondingly sparse. This Batzen issue under Georg III falls within the early 1530s, a moment when the fragmentation of imperial coinage standards across the Holy Roman Empire was acute — the 1524 Reichsmünzordnung had attempted to impose uniformity, but minor lordships routinely issued to their own specifications regardless.

Leuchtenberg's minting rights were exercised only intermittently, which explains why Schulten lists this type as a single catalog entry covering two years of production.