1/4 Thaler Klippe, Peace of Westphalia

Nuremberg issued this klippe to commemorate the formal conclusion of the Thirty Years' War, one of the most destructive conflicts in European history before the twentieth century — an estimated eight million dead across the continent. The Peace of Westphalia was signed in 1648, but Nuremberg hosted the Execution Congress that ran until 1650, tasked with demobilizing the armies and settling final territorial disputes. The city was therefore a principal venue for the war's actual end, not merely its diplomatic one.

The square flan itself signals commemorative intent. Kellner 344 is struck on a planchet cut to klippe form specifically for presentation purposes.