1 Thaler - George William

George William ruled Brandenburg-Bayreuth from 1712 until his death in 1726, making this a final-year issue struck under a margrave whose reign was largely defined by financial strain and dependence on Prussian goodwill. The Hohenzollern cadet lines of Franconia — Ansbach and Bayreuth both — operated in the shadow of their Brandenburg-Prussia cousins throughout the early eighteenth century, their taler coinage serving practical fiscal functions rather than any assertion of independent weight.

Dav GT II#2927 places this squarely within the German Taler series; the GT designation reflects Davenport's classification of German talers specifically, distinct from his broader European series numbering.