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1/4 Thaler - Ernest III
| Issuer | Holstein-Schaumburg-Pinneberg, County of |
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| Year | 1610 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | R(U)(V)DOL(P). II. (D.G.) RO(M). IM(P). SEM. A(VGV). |
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Ernest III ruled Schaumburg from 1601 until his death in 1622, and his coinage reflects the fractured monetary landscape — in the political sense, not the geographic — of the Lower Saxon Circle during the early Thirty Years' War buildup. Holstein-Schaumburg-Pinneberg was among the smaller north German territories still exercising mint rights under the Reichsmünzordnung, though enforcement of imperial coinage standards across such minor counties was inconsistent at best.
The county itself was partitioned among heirs after Ernest's death, effectively ending its independent coinage. Issues from 1610 predate that fragmentation by over a decade.