1 Thaler Konventionstaler

Nuremberg's status as a Free Imperial City gave it the right to strike its own coinage, but by the mid-eighteenth century that privilege was increasingly expensive to maintain. The Konventionstaler standard, established by the Convention of 1753 between Austria and Bavaria, set the 10-taler-to-mark-of-Cologne ratio that Nuremberg and other imperial cities were pressured to adopt — not by law, but by the practical necessity of keeping their coins acceptable in regional trade.

The city's mint was in chronic financial difficulty during this period, and the fourteen-year span of this type reflects slow, interrupted production rather than sustained output.