1 Thaler - Peter Ernest I, Christoph II and John Hoyer III

Mansfeld's copper mines had made the county one of the wealthiest territories in the Holy Roman Empire by the mid-sixteenth century, and the counts exercised their minting rights aggressively — issuing joint coinage under multiple co-rulers simultaneously, as dynastic partition had divided the county into parallel lines still sharing certain privileges. Peter Ernest I would later achieve far greater fame as a military commander under Habsburg service, eventually governing the Spanish Netherlands for over a decade, but in 1558 he was simply one of three counts squabbling over silver output from the same exhausted ore seams.