These rare and interesting pieces cast with busts of rulers, equestrian portraits, historical, battle and siege scenes are loosely based on the thaler silver coins of the area. The legends however are mostly rendered in German unlike their numismatic prototype in which Latin would be used.

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
Edward H. Pinto, Treen and other Wooden Bygones, Bell and Hyman, London 1969. See fig.231.