1/4 Stüber - John Louis Adolph

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.