1 Thaler - Maria Danielstaler

Jever's "Danielstaler" takes its name from the Old Testament narrative of Daniel in the lions' den, a subject chosen deliberately by Maria of Jever as dynastic propaganda — positioning herself as the divinely protected ruler of a small, vulnerable territory surrounded by more powerful neighbors. Maria never married and ruled Jever independently from 1536 until her death in 1575, an unusual circumstance for a sixteenth-century German lordship. These thaler-sized devotional issues were as much political statements as they were currency, asserting legitimacy through scriptural allegory rather than dynastic lineage.