1 Thaler - Philip Adolf

Philip Adolf von Riedesel zu Eisenbach held the burgraviate for decades, but Friedberg's thalers are notable less for their ruler than for their issuing authority — the Burgraviate of Friedberg was a peculiar imperial immediacy, a small enclave near Frankfurt that maintained its minting rights almost by institutional inertia long after territories of its size had lost them. By 1688, the Holy Roman Empire's coinage system was nominally regulated by the Reichsmünzordnung, though enforcement remained inconsistent enough that minor lords like the Friedberg burgraves continued striking full thalers well into the late seventeenth century.