1 Thaler - Joseph II Regency

Joseph II was co-regent alongside his mother Maria Theresa from 1765 until her death in 1780, a period marked by sustained institutional friction — he pushed Enlightenment reforms she repeatedly blocked or diluted. These thalers were struck across just two years, a narrow window that gives the Regency type its relative scarcity compared to the broader Maria Theresa coinage. The Davison reference places it firmly within the transitional Habsburg monetary output of the 1760s, before Joseph's solo reign allowed him to reshape imperial coinage policy on his own terms.