1 Thaler - Volkmar Wolfgang St. Andreas Ausbeute

Hohnstein was a small and financially precarious county in the Harz region, and its counts leaned heavily on mining revenues to sustain any pretense of independence. This thaler is an Ausbeute issue — struck directly from ore extracted at the St. Andreas mine — a practice that tied coinage explicitly to a specific working shaft rather than general treasury metal. Volkmar Wolfgang, who ruled jointly with his brothers under perpetual debt pressure, used such pieces partly as prestige instruments, demonstrating to creditors and neighbors alike that the mines were still producing.

The county was absorbed into Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel within decades of this striking.