1 Thaler

Strasbourg occupied an awkward position in 1550 — nominally within the Holy Roman Empire but fiercely protective of its free city status, caught between Habsburg pressure and the Protestant Reformation that had taken firm hold there since the 1520s. City coinage of this period was as much a political statement of municipal autonomy as it was a practical instrument of trade along the Rhine.

The Davenport reference places this among the large German thalers catalogued under the earliest transitional series, before Strasbourg's minting rights came under sustained imperial scrutiny later in the century.