1 Thaler - Johann Ehrenreich

The Counts of Sprinzenstein were an obscure Upper Austrian noble house whose minting rights — a jealously retained privilege of the Holy Roman Empire's lesser nobility — produced only a handful of documented thaler types. Johann Ehrenreich von Sprinzenstein exercised those rights in 1717, a period when Habsburg consolidation was actively eroding the practical autonomy of precisely such families. The rarity of surviving examples reflects a genuinely limited issue, not simply attrition.