⅙ Thaler - John Philip of Walderdorf

John Philip of Walderdorf served as Archbishop-Elector of Trier from 1756 until his death in 1768, his tenure overlapping almost entirely with the Seven Years' War — a conflict that put extraordinary fiscal pressure on the Rhenish ecclesiastical territories caught between French and Prussian military operations. This 1757 issue, struck just one year into his reign, came as French forces were actively maneuvering through the Rhineland, making normal commerce and coinage circulation deeply disrupted.

The Archbishopric of Trier maintained its own mint rights as a Prince-Elector of the Holy Roman Empire, though by the mid-eighteenth century such fractional silver issues were increasingly a practical necessity rather than a political assertion.