1 Thaler - Wolfgang von Schrattenbach

Wolfgang von Schrattenbach served as Prince-Bishop of Olomouc from 1711 until his death in 1738, presiding over one of the wealthiest ecclesiastical territories in Moravia during a period of sustained Habsburg consolidation after the War of the Spanish Succession. The Bishopric held the right to strike its own coinage — a privilege increasingly rare among imperial church territories by the early eighteenth century and one Schrattenbach exercised with some consistency throughout his tenure.

Davenport's EC III listing places this squarely within the broader Bohemian-Austrian taler tradition of the period. The dies were almost certainly prepared in Olomouc itself rather than contracted out, which accounts for the occasional inconsistency in planchet quality noted across surviving examples.