1 Thaler

Bremen struck thalers on its own authority as a Free Imperial City, a status it jealously protected throughout the Holy Roman Empire's final century. The 1743 issue falls within a period when the city's merchant senate was navigating the competing pressures of Hanoverian expansion and Prussian ambition along the Weser corridor — coinage was as much a political assertion as a commercial instrument.

KM#183 is catalogued as a one-year type with relatively modest surviving populations in problem-free condition, largely attributable to the heavy commercial use Bremen's thalers saw in North Sea trade circuits.