1⁄16 Thaler - Frederick III

Frederick III ruled Gottorp during one of the most destructive phases of the Thirty Years' War, and the small fractional thalers issued under his name reflect the chronic silver shortage that plagued north German minting throughout the 1640s. The Duchy's mint at Husum was intermittently active, and output of these sixteenth-thaler pieces was irregular enough that examples struck across the full date range are rarely encountered together.

Frederick later channeled considerable resources into transforming Gottorf Castle into a baroque cultural center, but during the war years his mint was firmly in austerity mode.