1 Thaler

Cologne maintained the legal status of a Free Imperial City throughout this period, and its right to strike silver coinage of this weight was a jealously guarded privilege repeatedly contested by the Archbishop-Electors who controlled the surrounding territory. The city and the archbishopric ran parallel minting operations for decades, producing superficially similar coins whose issuing authority carried entirely different political implications for merchants using them.

Davenport's German Talers grouping for this type spans a twenty-year window, suggesting multiple die marriages were employed across the issue rather than a single short production run.