1 Thaler - Albert V

Albert V inherited a duchy nearly bankrupt from his predecessor's debts and spent his early reign navigating between Lutheran pressure from the estates and his own firm Catholicism — a tension that shaped Bavarian politics for decades. The 1557 date falls squarely in that volatile period, before the Religious Colloquy of Worms and well before the Counter-Reformation machinery gave him firmer ground to stand on. Coinage was one of the few levers of ducal authority he could exercise without negotiating with the estates.

The Dav GT I 8922A reference places this among the earlier Albertine thalers, distinguished from closely related varieties by specific die characteristics catalogued by Hahn.