1 Thaler - Gustav Adolph

Gustav Adolf of Mecklenburg-Güstrow died in 1695, but this thaler was struck fifteen years earlier, likely to assert dynastic presence during a period of acute vulnerability — the duchy had been partitioned between the Güstrow and Schwerin lines in 1621, a division that generated decades of jurisdictional friction and succession anxiety. Mecklenburg-Güstrow would ultimately revert to Schwerin upon Gustav Adolf's death without male heirs, making issues from this reign terminal points of a short-lived cadet line.

Kunzel 498a distinguishes this variety within a small emission group; survivors in problem-free condition are not plentiful.