1 Thaler

Erfurt in 1633 sat at the epicenter of the Thirty Years' War — Swedish forces had occupied the city since 1631, and this thaler was struck under that occupation, making it a product of Swedish administrative control rather than purely civic authority. The city's mint was extraordinarily active during this period, producing emergency and commemorative coinage as the war reshaped political allegiances across Thuringia. Leitzmann's cataloguing of this type documents the considerable die variation present across the 1633 issues, a direct consequence of the pressured production pace during the Swedish garrison years.