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1 Dreier - Christian I, Augustus, Louis, John Casimir, George Aribert and John Kipper
| Issuer | Anhalt, Principality of |
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| Year | 1622 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Reverse description | Imperial orb surmounted by a cross fleury, the globe encircled by a beaded band and crowned, with the numeral 84 prominently displayed in the lower field of the orb; the date 1622 divided by the orb, with digits appearing in the left and right fields. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Kipper und Wipper crisis of 1618–1623 was one of the most destructive monetary collapses in German history, driven by petty princes and municipal mints systematically debasing small silver coinage to exploit the fixed exchange rates between denominations. Anhalt's participation was characteristic of the period — multiple co-ruling princes lending their names to issues that were, in practical terms, currency debasement by committee.
The six-prince obverse attribution reflects Anhalt's famously fragmented inheritance system, which had divided the principality repeatedly across the preceding century. By 1622 the silver content in issues like this had been reduced so aggressively that contemporaries were literally boiling the coins to extract whatever metal remained.