1 Thaler - Charles August

Hohenlohe-Kirchberg was among the smallest and most financially marginal of the German imperial counties, with taxable territory so limited that thaler-denomination coinage was more a demonstration of sovereign coining rights than any practical monetary necessity. Charles August ruled from 1715 to 1756, and the 1738 thaler falls near the midpoint of a reign defined largely by the effort to maintain the trappings of independent statehood within the Holy Roman Empire's increasingly crowded numismatic landscape — each petty count jealously exercising mint privileges as proof of standing. Davenport's listing under GT II confirms the type within the broader German thaler series, but surviving examples surface rarely at auction, a direct consequence of the county's negligible population and circulation area.