1 Thaler - Adam Francis Charles

Adam Francis of Schwarzenberg obtained the princely title for his family in 1670 — technically — but it was his son Adam Francis Charles who pressed the Holy Roman Emperor to confirm and expand those privileges in the early eighteenth century, partly as reward for military service against the Ottomans. Striking thalers was itself an exercise in that status game: the right to mint full-weight silver coinage was jealously guarded imperial territory, and a minor principality issuing thalers was advertising its autonomy as much as its treasury.

The Davenport reference places this squarely among the German Territorial issues, a category where survival rates vary wildly by principality. Schwarzenberg pieces from this window see relatively limited appearance at auction compared to contemporary Saxon or Brandenburg issues.