⅙ Thaler - Maximilian I

Maximilian I received the electoral dignity in 1623 as direct payment for his military support of Ferdinand II during the Bohemian crisis — the transfer of the Palatinate electorate to Bavaria was among the most contentious political acts of the Thirty Years' War. These fractions were workhorses of Bavarian commerce during that conflict, when silver supply was perpetually disrupted by wartime requisition and the broader Kipper und Wipper debasement crisis that had only recently subsided.

The Wittelsbach mint at Munich struck this denomination across a fourteen-year span, an unusually long continuous run for a fractional type under wartime fiscal pressure.