1 Thaler - Charles Wolfgang, Louis XV and Martin

Charles Wolfgang, Louis XV, and Martin ruled Oettingen jointly as co-counts, a fractious arrangement that characterized the tiny Swabian county throughout the sixteenth century. This thaler was struck during a window when all three were simultaneously recognized as co-rulers — a situation that required negotiation not just politically but physically on the die, cramming three comital titles onto a single coin. Oettingen's minting rights derived from imperial privilege, but the county's output was always modest, and joint-reign pieces compressed into so short a span are correspondingly scarce.