1 Thaler

Augsburg's civic coinage of the late 1620s and early 1630s was produced under extraordinary pressure. The city was occupied by Imperial forces in 1629, and Ferdinand II's Edict of Restitution — demanding the return of ecclesiastical properties seized since 1552 — struck directly at Augsburg's Protestant majority. The city changed hands again during the Swedish phase of the war, with Gustav Adolf entering in 1632 to considerable civic relief before his death at Lützen that same year.

The date range on this type spans the worst of Augsburg's Thirty Years' War ordeal, and pieces from the early 1630s were struck under Swedish municipal oversight rather than Imperial authority.