1 Thaler - John Rudolph Stör of Störenberg

The Imperial Abbey of Murbach, founded in the Alsatian Vosges in the early eighth century, held the rank of a reichsunmittelbar institution — answerable to the Emperor alone, not to any territorial lord. John Rudolph Stör of Störenberg served as its administrator (not a consecrated abbot in the traditional sense) during a period when the abbey's temporal authority was already eroding under Protestant pressure in the surrounding region. That Murbach struck thalers at all during this window is notable; the abbey's coinage output was never prolific, and pieces attributable to Stör's administration are genuinely scarce survivors of a house already in institutional decline.