1 Thaler - Albert VII, John George I, Peter Ernest I and Christoph II

Mansfeld's complex co-rulership arrangements made coins like this administratively necessary and numismatically chaotic. The county's silver output came directly from its own copper-silver mines in the Harz foothills — among the most productive in sixteenth-century Germany — giving the counts both the means and the political incentive to strike thalers bearing all four ruling names simultaneously. Albert VII, John George I, Peter Ernest I, and Christoph II each held fractional sovereignty over different Mansfeld partitions, a dynastic fragmentation that accelerated through the 1560s until debt and legal disputes consumed most of the family's mining revenues.