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1⁄16 Thaler - Gustav Adolphus Düttchen
| Issuer | Duchy of Mecklenburg-Güstrow |
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| Year | 1678 |
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| Value | 1⁄16 Thaler |
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| Obverse lettering | GUST: ADOLPH: D: G: DUX MECKL: |
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| Mintage | 1678 |
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Gustav Adolphus of Mecklenburg-Güstrow ruled a duchy that had been devastated by the Thirty Years' War — Mecklenburg lost an estimated two-thirds of its population to fighting, famine, and plague between 1618 and 1648. By 1678, the duchy was still rebuilding, and small silver fractions like this Düttchen served the grinding daily commerce of a territory that had barely recovered. Gustav Adolphus himself died without a male heir in 1695, extinguishing the Güstrow line and reuniting the divided Mecklenburg territories under a single administration.