1 Thaler - Albrecht von Wallenstein

Wallenstein struck these thalers from the silver mines at Gitschin (Jičín), which he controlled as part of his extraordinary accumulation of confiscated Bohemian estates following the Battle of White Mountain in 1620. By 1629 he held roughly a quarter of all Bohemia by land area, and the Friedland mint operated essentially as a private imperial enterprise — producing coins that asserted his quasi-sovereign ambitions with uncomfortable directness.

Ferdinand II would strip Wallenstein of his command that same year, partly in response to pressure from the German princes who found his independent power intolerable. The assassination at Eger followed in 1634.