1⁄48 Thaler - Gustav Adolph

Gustav Adolph ruled Mecklenburg-Güstrow as the last duke of that line, dying in 1695 without a male heir — a dynastic failure that ultimately collapsed the Güstrow branch and triggered a prolonged succession dispute with Mecklenburg-Schwerin. These fractional billon pieces were struck in the final years of his reign, when the duchy's finances were already compromised by the lingering devastation of the Thirty Years' War and subsequent Swedish occupation. The territory never fully recovered its fiscal footing.