2 Thalers

Augsburg's 1625 double thaler lands squarely in the opening years of the Thirty Years' War, during which the city — nominally imperial but internally divided between its Lutheran majority and Catholic patriciate — was navigating an increasingly untenable political position. The city would fall under Bavarian Catholic occupation in 1632, ending decades of uneasy confessional coexistence. Issues from this precise window are among the last struck under conditions of genuine civic autonomy.