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1/2 Kreuzer Kipper
| Issuer | Lauingen, City of |
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| Year | 1620-1622 |
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| Value | 1/2 Kreuzer = 4 Heller |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Lauingen's Kipper coinage belongs to the most inflationary episode in German monetary history before the twentieth century — the Kipper- und Wipperzeit of roughly 1619–1623, when hundreds of petty German states debased their currencies so aggressively that the entire Holy Roman Empire's small-change economy collapsed. Municipal mints that had no business striking coins were suddenly doing so, flooding markets with underweight copper and billon issues while hoarding full-weight silver.
Lauingen, a small Bavarian Danube town, was among the opportunists. Its participation was brief, which keeps survivors scarce.