1 Thaler - Christian Frederick Charles

Hohenlohe-Kirchberg was one of the smallest and most financially precarious of the Swabian imperial counties, perpetually dependent on the larger Hohenlohe branches for political cover. By 1781, the county's ability to strike silver thalers of this weight was already an anachronism — most comparably sized territories had surrendered minting rights decades earlier under pressure from the Kreis monetary conventions. That Kirchberg could still produce a full-weight thaler at this date reflects less fiscal strength than a stubborn insistence on the trappings of sovereignty that the county could barely afford to maintain.