⅔ Thaler

Mühlhausen was one of the few Free Imperial Cities in Thuringia that retained the right to strike silver coinage into the eighteenth century, a privilege it exercised sporadically and jealously. The ⅔ Thaler denomination — equivalent to the Gulden and dominant in northern and central German commerce — was the workhorse of regional trade, yet municipal issues like this were always struck in limited quantities relative to the output of the territorial princes surrounding the city.

By 1737, Mühlhausen's political autonomy was increasingly nominal, hemmed in by Prussian and Saxon interests. The Davenport reference SG#689 places this squarely among the city's final sustained coinage efforts before imperial city status became effectively ceremonial.