5 Kreuzers - Charles Thomas

Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort was one of the more obscure subdivisions of the Holy Roman Empire — a Franconian county whose coinage rights were exercised only sporadically and whose issues consequently appear in small quantities. Charles Thomas ruled from 1735 until his death in 1789, and this brief minting window of 1767–69 likely corresponds to a specific fiscal need rather than any sustained monetary program. The county had no permanent mint of its own and contracted work out, which accounts for the die inconsistencies Wibel documents across the type.