1/2 Thaler - Christian I, Augustus, Louis I, John Casimir and George Aribert

The 1624 date places this coin squarely in the opening devastation of the Thirty Years' War, which had been tearing through German territories since 1618. Anhalt was among the hardest-hit principalities — Prince Christian I had backed the ill-fated Bohemian revolt and was placed under imperial ban in 1621, his lands occupied by imperial and League forces. That five rulers appear on this issue reflects the Anhalt practice of joint sovereignty under the partition system established by the 1603 division of the principality into Anhalt-Bernburg, Anhalt-Dessau, Anhalt-Köthen, and Anhalt-Plötzkau.

Mann#188c suggests a minor die variant within the broader KM#80 series — likely a positional or punctuation difference in the abbreviated titulature.