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1/4 Stüber - John Louis Adolph
| Issuer | Wied-Runkel, County of |
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| Year | 1751-1758 |
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| Thickness | 1 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | GW |
| Reverse description | Three-line inscription in the field stating the denomination and date, reading '1/4' above 'STVBER' and '1758' below, flanked on either side of the fraction by small quatrefoil or rosette ornaments. The lettering is bold and upright in a Roman serif style, with no peripheral legend, and the plain field shows the characteristic texture of a struck copper flan. |
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Wied-Runkel was one of the smaller partitioned lordships of the Wied dynasty, formally elevated to a county in the early eighteenth century but governing a territory so modest that its coinage served more as an assertion of sovereign minting rights than any practical monetary need. John Louis Adolph ruled from 1736 until his death in 1762, and this copper fractional issue falls squarely within a period when petty Rhenish rulers were under increasing pressure from larger neighbors to consolidate or abandon independent monetary production altogether.