Thaler - Bernhard Müller

Struck under Abbot Bernhard Müller, who governed Saint Gall from 1594 until his death in 1630, this thaler was issued during the Thirty Years' War — a conflict that placed the Swiss Confederation's ecclesiastical territories under enormous political pressure despite the Confederation's nominal neutrality. The Abbey of Saint Gall maintained its independence as an imperial abbey directly subordinate to the Holy Roman Emperor, a status that made issuing coin a right Müller exercised deliberately.

The HMZ census records only a handful of die marriages for this type, suggesting limited production runs rather than a sustained mint program.