1 Guldiner - Maximilian I. Hall

The Hall Guldiner is effectively the founding document of the modern silver coin. Maximilian's Tyrolean mines at Schwaz — among the most productive in Europe at the time — gave him the bullion to attempt something no mint had managed at scale: a large silver coin equivalent in value to the gold Gulden. The first pieces were struck at Hall in the Inn valley in 1486, and the denomination's logic spread across Europe within a generation, directly ancestral to the Thaler and, ultimately, the dollar.

Schwaz production peaked around 1523, but the coins struck under Maximilian himself predate that apex, drawn from mines already operating at extraordinary output during his reign.