1 Thaler - Gebhard VII, John George I and Peter Ernest I

Mansfeld's silver production in the mid-sixteenth century was inseparable from its copper mines — among the most productive in the Holy Roman Empire — which generated the capital and political leverage that allowed the county's perpetually fractious ruling families to mint at scale. This piece was struck during a period of joint rule by three counts simultaneously, a governing arrangement born of inheritance disputes rather than cooperation, and the county would formally partition within decades. The Tornau reference places it among a well-documented but genuinely scarce group of collaborative issues from Schraplau.