1/4 Kreuzer - Ferdinand II

Ferdinand II's Silesian quarter kreuzer issues of 1625 fall squarely within the economic chaos of the Kipper- und Wipperzeit — the "clipping and culling" crisis of 1619–1623 that debased small-denomination coinage across the Holy Roman Empire so aggressively that monetary confidence in the region had barely begun recovering by the time this piece was struck. Silesia, as a hereditary Habsburg land only recently brought to heel after the Bohemian revolt, was under particular pressure to stabilize its minting output.

Herinek 1634 is a scarce attribution within the Ferdinand II billon series, with surviving examples predominantly found in central European regional collections.