1 Thaler - Frederick V

Frederick V ruled Baden-Durlach through some of the most punishing years of the Thirty Years' War. His father Georg Friedrich had led Protestant forces at the Battle of Wimpfen in 1622 and lost badly, forcing the family into exile and placing the margraviate under Bavarian occupation. By 1626–27, Frederick was effectively administering a territory that had been stripped, garrisoned, and economically gutted by Catholic League forces. That this thaler was struck at all under those conditions is itself notable.