1 Thaler - Marquard Sebastian Schenk of Stauffenberg

Marquard Sebastian Schenk von Stauffenberg held the Bishop's seat in Bamberg for less than four years, from 1683 until his death in 1693 — a tenure short enough that his thalers were produced in limited quantity across relatively few dies. The Bishopric of Bamberg was an ecclesiastical principality of the Holy Roman Empire with full minting rights, and these coins functioned as genuine territorial currency rather than ceremonial issue.

The Davenport reference places this among the standard large silver of the Upper Franconian ecclesiastical mints. Krug's Bamberg catalog remains the authoritative die study for this bishop's coinage.