1 Thaler - Louis II

Königstein was a small Imperial County in the Taunus region whose comital line died out in 1581 when Ludwig II — Louis II — passed without male heirs, extinguishing the house and transferring its territories to the County of Stolberg. These thalers, struck across just a three-year window, represent nearly the final coinage of that line. The Davenport reference places them within the broader German taler series, but issues from minor extinct counties of this scale are genuinely uncommon in any form.