1 Thaler

Regensburg sat directly in the path of the Thirty Years' War in 1632 — the same year Imperial and Swedish forces fought for control of the city. Maximilian I of Bavaria had held it; Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden took it in November of that year, just weeks before his death at Lützen. A free imperial city issuing its own thaler currency during active military occupation was not merely an administrative act but a deliberate assertion of civic continuity under existential pressure.

The Beckenbach reference places this among a small cluster of Regensburg thalers struck in a single turbulent year, making survivors in any condition genuinely scarce.