1/2 Thaler - Hermann Adolphus

Hermann Adolphus ruled Lippe as count from 1652 until his death in 1666, a period when the small Westphalian county was still absorbing the economic devastation left by the Thirty Years' War. Coinage from Lippe in this decade was intermittent and issued in limited quantities — the county lacked a permanent mint of its own and contracted striking to outside facilities, which accounts for the variability in die workmanship seen across surviving specimens of this type.