1 Thaler - Sebastian I of Hatzfeld-Wildenburg-Krottorf

Sebastian I ruled the Grafschaft Hatzfeld as a minuscule imperial county in the Westphalian circle, and this thaler was struck under the authority granted to him as a Count of the Holy Roman Empire — a minting privilege jealously held even by the smallest territorial lords as an assertion of sovereign rank. The Peace of Westphalia in 1648 had reshuffled noble hierarchies across the Reich, and coinage like this served partly as political declaration. Counties of this scale rarely produced more than a handful of thaler issues across their entire history.

Dav GT I#9249 identifies this as an extreme rarity, consistent with the county's negligible minting output. The Slg. Erlanger collection reference confirms that even dedicated specialist holdings struggled to secure examples.