1 Guldengroschen 'Joachimsthaler'

The Schlick family began striking these large silver coins from metal mined in the Joachimsthal valley of Bohemia around 1519–1520, exploiting a vein so productive it briefly made them among the wealthiest noble houses in Central Europe. The coins took their name from the valley — Joachimsthaler, eventually shortened to Thaler — and that word would propagate across two centuries and two continents to become "dollar."

The Imperial authorities were uncomfortable with a noble family controlling such a mint, and by 1528 the Habsburgs moved to bring the Joachimsthal operation under crown supervision. This 1526 strike falls in the last years of independent Schlick production.