1 Thaler - Christian Frederick Charles Alexander Konventionstaler

Christian Frederick Charles Alexander ruled Brandenburg-Ansbach for less than two decades before making one of the more extraordinary decisions in the history of minor German principalities: in 1791 he simply sold the entire margraviate to Prussia and retired to England with his mistress, Lady Craven, whom he subsequently married. This thaler was struck six years before that abdication, during a period when the Ansbach court was already financially strained and politically marginal within the broader Hohenzollern orbit.

The Konventionstaler standard, established by the Austro-Bavarian convention of 1753, fixed coinage at 10 thalers to the Cologne mark of silver — a framework Brandenburg-Ansbach adopted to maintain commercial credibility with larger neighbors it could never hope to rival militarily.