3 Thaler

Lübeck's multi-thaler issues of the early seventeenth century were struck to facilitate large mercantile transactions in a city whose commercial reach extended across the Baltic and into the Hanseatic trading network. The 3 Thaler denomination was never intended for everyday exchange — pieces of this weight moved between merchants, treasuries, and counting houses.

Behr's census of this specific variety documents only a handful of survivors, and the tight date range of 1603–1609 suggests production was tied to a specific fiscal need rather than routine mintage.