2 Thaler - Eucharius Casimir

Eucharius Casimir ruled Löwenstein-Wertheim-Virneburg as a minor Catholic line of the House of Löwenstein, itself a cadet branch of the Palatinate-Simmern Wittelsbachs. The county was perpetually squeezed between larger Imperial neighbors, and large-denomination silver issues like this double thaler functioned more as prestige objects and diplomatic gifts than circulating money — the county's economic footprint was simply too small to require them in trade.

The Davenport reference places this among the spättaler series, struck late in the tradition of large German silver when the type was already in commercial decline across the Empire.