1 Thaler - Franz Ernst

The Schlick family were among the Bohemian nobility most directly responsible for the thaler as a denomination — it was on their Joachimsthal estates that large-scale silver mining began in 1516, giving the coin its name. Franz Ernst, Count Schlick, ruled the family's holdings during the turbulent aftermath of the Thirty Years' War, when Bohemian noble houses were scrambling to reassert economic authority stripped by Habsburg centralization following the Battle of White Mountain in 1620. That the Schlicks retained minting rights into the 1650s at all is itself a residual anomaly of the pre-war order.