1⁄48 Thaler

Stade was under Swedish occupation for much of the seventeenth century, administered as part of the Duchy of Bremen-Verden following Sweden's gains at the Peace of Westphalia in 1648. Municipal coinage of this kind — issued in the city's own name rather than the Swedish crown's — reflects the complicated layered sovereignty of the period, where occupying powers often left local civic minting rights intact for small-denomination currency. The 1676 date falls squarely within that Swedish administration, which would not end until the Great Northern War reshuffled the regional order decades later.