1 Thaler - Louis II, Henry XXI, Albert George, Christof I, and Wolf Ernest

Stolberg's thalers of the early 1570s reflect the county's unusual governance structure: the territory was ruled jointly by multiple counts from the Stolberg dynasty simultaneously, a practice of Ganerbschaft — co-inheritance — that produced coins bearing up to five co-rulers' names at once. This particular issue names all five ruling counts of the period, a bureaucratic crowding that was legally necessary under the terms of the family's inheritance arrangements.

The Dav GT I reference places this within the broader Grafschaft Stolberg series documented by Davenport, with Friedrich 257 confirming the specific die marriage. Two-year emission windows like 1572–1573 typically indicate a short-lived administrative or mintage agreement rather than continuous production.