1 Thaler - Philip Reinhard I Hahnrei-Taler, type 3

Philip Reinhard I, Count of Solms-Hohensolms, commissioned this taler as a piece of deliberate personal propaganda following a bitter dispute over his wife's fidelity — the term "Hahnrei" meaning cuckold. The coins were struck to publicly shame his wife Anna Margaretha of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg and her alleged lover, a remarkable and almost singular instance of a reigning German count using the mint as an instrument of private revenge. The episode scandalized the Protestant courts of the Holy Roman Empire.

Three distinct die types exist for the 1627 issue, making type attribution essential to proper cataloging.