1 Thaler - George of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel

George of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel held the Bishopric of Minden as a Protestant administrator — never ordained, never consecrated — appointed under the arrangements that allowed Lutheran princes to absorb ecclesiastical territories following the Peace of Augsburg in 1555. His coins are secular instruments issued from a bishopric that had effectively ceased to function as a Catholic institution.

Welter 495 is not a common attribution. Surviving examples in any condition are infrequently traded.