1 Thaler - Max Gandolf von Kuenburg Free city of Augsburg, Countermarked

Max Gandolf von Kuenburg, Archbishop of Salzburg from 1668 to 1687, ruled during a period of sustained tension with his Protestant subjects that culminated in organized expulsions from the Salzburg territories. This particular thaler carries a countermark from the Free City of Augsburg — a practice applied to foreign silver that municipal authorities had assayed and approved for local circulation at a guaranteed weight and fineness. Augsburg's countermarking program was a pragmatic response to the flood of debased and clipped coinage circulating through southern German trade networks in the later seventeenth century.

The Zöttl reference spans four sub-varieties (2088.61–2088.64), distinguished by countermark placement and die pairing.