1 Thaler - Johann Wenzel

The Counts of Paar held one of the most unusual hereditary privileges in the Habsburg system: they controlled the imperial postal service for generations, a monopoly granted in the sixteenth century that made them extraordinarily wealthy and politically entangled with Vienna. Johann Wenzel von Paar, who authorized this thaler, was among the last of the line to exercise meaningful independent coining rights before josephine centralization effectively ended such aristocratic minting prerogatives in the 1770s.

Dav EC III 1193 is a recognized rarity in the European crown series — the Paar issues were struck in tiny quantities, more as prestige objects than circulating money.