1⁄24 Thaler

Hamelin struck these small silver pieces during the years when the city was bracing for what would become the Thirty Years' War — a conflict that would devastate Lower Saxony more thoroughly than almost any other German region. The 1/24 Thaler denomination was part of the broader Kipper und Wipperzeit monetary chaos building across the Holy Roman Empire, a period of systematic currency debasement in which mints competed to strike underweight small silver at fraudulent face values. Hamelin's issues from this window predate the worst of that debasement, making them comparatively honest coins against what followed after 1618.