1 Thaler - Ulrich

Ulrich of Württemberg had only recently been restored to his duchy in 1534, after fifteen years of Habsburg exile following his defeat at the Battle of Lauffen. This thaler belongs to his first years back in power — a period when re-establishing ducal authority meant, among other things, issuing credible coinage. The Reichsmünzordnung of 1524 had set standards for thaler production across the Empire, and Ulrich's mint was operating within that framework, though the duchy's silver supply drew partly on Tyrolean trade networks rather than domestic extraction.