1 Thaler - John VI of the Leyen

John VI von der Leyen served as Archbishop of Trier during one of the most fractious decades of the Reformation's spread through the Rhineland. His predecessors had already watched Protestant doctrine erode ecclesiastical authority across neighboring territories, and his own chapter was not immune to internal pressure. The thalers struck under his name were among the principal large silver denominations circulating in the Moselle valley during this period of confessional tension.

Davenport's attribution under GT I#9911 places this firmly within the broader German territorial thaler sequence — a useful anchor given the number of minor Rhenish ecclesiastical issues that remain poorly catalogued.