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1 Dreier
| Issuer | Einbeck, City of |
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| Year | 1622-1635 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#20, Buck Ei#73 |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | 1622 - - 1635 - - |
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Einbeck's Dreier coinage of the 1620s and early 1630s was struck against the backdrop of the Thirty Years' War, during which the city's autonomy as an imperial free town was under sustained pressure. The Kipper und Wipperzeit — the catastrophic currency debasement episode that swept German-speaking lands roughly between 1618 and 1623 — had already destroyed confidence in small silver denominations across the region by the time this type was issued.
Einbeck retained municipal minting rights into this period, though the city would eventually lose significant political standing as the war ground on. The Buck reference places this squarely within the local civic coinage sequence.