Thaler

Thann, an Alsatian mining town under Habsburg suzerainty, issued these thalers during a period when municipal coinage rights were fiercely contested across the Upper Rhine. The authorization to strike full thalers was an assertion of economic standing that few cities of Thann's size could sustain for long — production ceased by the late 1550s, leaving a narrow fifteen-year window for the entire series. Davenport's attribution places this squarely among the rarest civic issues of the German lands, with surviving examples scattered across perhaps a handful of institutional collections.