1 Thaler - Ferdinand II of Tyrol

Ferdinand II of Tyrol died in 1595, yet thalers issued in his name by the Landgraviate of Upper Alsace continued to appear well into the seventeenth century — this being among the later posthumous strikings. Upper Alsace, as a Habsburg hereditary land administered separately from the Tyrolian core, retained the right to strike in Ferdinand's name long after his death, a practice rooted in dynastic continuity rather than monetary deception.

The 1621–1623 window places production squarely within the Kipper und Wipperzeit, the catastrophic currency debasement crisis that swept the Holy Roman Empire at the outset of the Thirty Years' War. That this issue maintained an .875 fineness during that period is itself notable.