1 Thaler

Regensburg's status as a Free Imperial City gave it the right to strike its own coinage, a privilege it exercised jealously well into the eighteenth century despite being physically surrounded by Bavarian territory whose rulers repeatedly coveted absorption of the city. By 1775 the city's commercial importance had declined sharply from its medieval peak as a Danube trading hub, and the thaler issues of this period were struck as much to assert continuing autonomy as for practical monetary need.

The Davenport reference places this within the German Taler series, and Beckenbach's tighter cataloguing of Regensburg municipal issues confirms relatively modest surviving populations across the 1770s civic thalers.