1 Thaler - Jobst Edmund of Brabeck

Jobst Edmund von Brabeck served as Prince-Bishop of Hildesheim from 1688 until his death in 1702, presiding over a diocese still recovering from the devastation of the Thirty Years' War and the subsequent French incursions under Louis XIV. The 1696 issue falls squarely within the Nine Years' War, during which the Lower Saxon Circle — Hildesheim included — was under sustained military and financial pressure from French forces operating along the Rhine and into imperial territory.

Hildesheim thalers of this period were minted under conditions that make full-weight survivors with unimpaired surfaces genuinely uncommon. The Dav CCT#5410 attribution places this cleanly within the broader corpus of Circle thalers, but the Mehl Hildeshiem reference is the more useful tool for distinguishing among the several Brabeck thaler dies of the 1690s.