1 Thaler

Lüneburg's wealth in the sixteenth century rested almost entirely on salt — the city controlled the Lüneburg Heath salt works, which supplied much of northern Europe and made it one of the richest municipalities in the Holy Roman Empire. That commercial dominance is precisely why the city retained the right to strike its own coinage well into the imperial period, when smaller or less prosperous towns had long since lost theirs.

Mader's classification as 245b distinguishes this from the primary 245 variety by minor die differences that specialists continue to debate in terms of sequence and output volume.