1 Thaler

Stolberg's thalers of the mid-sixteenth century were issued jointly under the ruling brothers of the comital house, a dynastic arrangement that produced a bewildering range of co-regency combinations across the series. MB#46 corresponds to an early emission, struck just as the county's silver output was competing for recognition in a market already flooded by Joachimsthaler production from Bohemia.

The Stolberg mint operated intermittently and never at scale. Dies were expensive, output was modest, and surviving examples from the 1550s are genuinely scarce rather than artificially so.