1 Thaler - Gábor Bethlen

Bethlen issued this thaler the same year he launched his invasion of Royal Hungary, exploiting the Bohemian revolt against Habsburg rule that would ignite the Thirty Years' War. By autumn 1619 his forces had pushed as far as Vienna's outskirts, and he temporarily controlled much of Upper Hungary. Coinage struck that year carried immediate political weight — these thalers circulated as instruments of a rival administration challenging Habsburg monetary authority across the region.

Resch's corpus remains the standard reference for Transylvanian thalers of this period, with this type documented at number 29.