1 Thaler - Albert IV of Brandenburg

Albert IV of Brandenburg-Ansbach served as Archbishop of Magdeburg from 1513 until his death in 1545, presiding over the archbishopric during one of the most turbulent decades of the German Reformation. Magdeburg itself was a hotbed of Lutheran agitation — the city had embraced Protestant preaching by the late 1520s, creating persistent friction between the overwhelmingly Protestant citizenry and their Catholic archbishop. This thaler was struck just one year before Albert's death, at a moment when his temporal authority over the city was increasingly nominal.

Davenport's GT I attribution places it within the broader German thaler series of the period, when the Joachimsthaler standard was still consolidating across the Empire's ecclesiastical mints.