1 Thaler - Albert II Death

Albert II, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach, died in 1667 after a reign marked by the slow reconstruction of his territories following the devastation of the Thirty Years' War. Death thalers — Sterbetaler — were a well-established German tradition by this point, struck not as mourning pieces per se but as dynastic announcements circulated among courts and allies. KM#69.2 is distinguished from the closely related 69.1 by die differences documented in the Storer reference, a distinction that matters considerably to specialists assembling complete die studies of the Ansbach series.