1/2 Thaler - Justus Hermann

Holstein-Schaumburg-Pinneberg was a minor German county whose ruling line was already in dynastic decline by the 1620s. Justus Hermann, who succeeded to the county in 1622, ruled during the opening phase of the Thirty Years' War — a period when even small territories with minimal military significance scrambled to assert sovereign coining rights before political absorption made such pretensions impossible. The county was absorbed into Hesse-Kassel in 1640, leaving a window of fewer than two decades in which coins bearing Pinneberg's authority were struck at all.

KM#137 is among the scarcer issues of this short-lived minting period.