1 Thaler - Philip

Philip of Hesse died in 1567, but this thaler was struck three years before his death during the final, diminished chapter of a once-dominant career. He had spent the years 1547–1552 imprisoned by Charles V following the Schmalkaldic War — a defeat that broke his political standing permanently. The thalers of his later reign carry no trace of that humiliation in the catalog data, but they were minted by a man who had already lost everything that mattered.

The Dav GT I#9272A attribution places this among the rarer die variants of his late coinage. Schütz distinguishes multiple reverse types from this period, and attribution without reference works is unreliable.