1 Thaler - Maximilian Charles

Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort was a tiny Franconian countship of the Holy Roman Empire, so fractured by inheritance divisions that its ruling lines issued coinage almost as a matter of dynastic vanity rather than commercial necessity. Maximilian Charles held the Rochefort line, the Catholic branch of a family long split along confessional lines following the Thirty Years' War settlements.

Thalers from such minor imperial counts are rarely encountered because production runs were small and local circulation was limited — the surrounding larger territories absorbed most everyday trade. The Wibel reference places this squarely in the specialized literature on Franconian coinage, itself a thin field.