1 Thaler - John Gottfried II of Guttenberg

John Gottfried II von Guttenberg ruled the Bishopric of Würzburg from 1684 until his death in 1698, a tenure marked by the slow recovery of Franconia from the devastation of the Thirty Years' War — a conflict that had ended a generation earlier but left the region's economy and population diminished for decades. Würzburg's prince-bishops held both secular and ecclesiastical authority under the Holy Roman Empire, giving them the right to strike coinage as territorial rulers rather than merely as churchmen.

The DAV CCT 5990 reference places this squarely within Davenport's corpus of German church state thalers — a category notorious for relatively small production runs tied to the financial capacity of individual ecclesiastical mints.