Thaler - Albert of Brandenburg

Albert of Brandenburg-Ansbach held the Halberstadt see as administrator from 1513, one of several ecclesiastical territories he accumulated during his career — a practice the Church was actively trying to curb but largely failing to enforce among the high nobility. These thalers were struck during the final months of his administration, as the Protestant Reformation was dismantling episcopal authority across much of northern Germany. Halberstadt itself would remain formally Catholic for another century, but the political ground was already shifting irreversibly beneath it.

Davenport's attribution to GT I#9211 places this squarely among the earliest large silver issues of the see.