Coins issued by regional authorities continuously changed their values. While the basic currencies remained stable in their correlation – and to a good extent in their international exchange rates – an immense chaos and instability reigned underneath the broad pattern. Hamburg, Lübeck, Bremen and Berlin issued – different – Marcks and were dominated by the surrounding Thaler regions. Gulden were prominent in the south, Thaler had become prominent in territories in the middle, the north and the northwest. The pattern was certainly more complex than the distribution of religions. The territories of the "Sacrum Imperium Romanum", with less clarity referred to as Germany and Austria, could be divided into Thaler-, Gulden- and Marck-Regions.
18 Important Coins and their Value, Nürnberg 1709.
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