1 Thaler - Leopold V Siege coinage

Breisach am Rhein held out against Bernard of Saxe-Weimar's forces through a brutal siege that lasted from August 1638 to December 1638 — but the numismatic record complicates that neat narrative. Siege coinage attributed to Leopold V and dated 1632–1633 reflects an earlier phase of the Thirty Years' War, when the town faced Swedish-aligned pressure before the later, more famous Bernhardine siege finally starved the garrison into surrender. Emergency issues like this were struck from whatever silver the besieged authority could commandeer, which explains the weight variance seen across surviving specimens.