1 Thaler - Maria Danielstaler

Jever was a tiny but fiercely independent lordship on the North Sea coast, and this Danielstaler takes its name from the Old Testament episode of Daniel in the lions' den — a type adopted across several north German territories in the 1560s as a coded expression of Protestant faith under pressure. The choice was pointed: Jever had embraced Lutheranism under Fräulein Maria, who ruled the lordship alone from 1536 until her death in 1575, one of the few women to exercise direct territorial authority in the Holy Roman Empire.

Daumer catalogs this type as genuinely scarce. Jever's mint output was limited throughout Maria's reign.