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1 Dreier Klippe
| Issuer | Nuremberg, Free imperial city of |
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| Year | 1625-1628 |
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| Value | 1 Dreier = 3 Pfennig (1⁄80) |
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| Obverse description | Within a beaded circular border, the two conjoined armorial shields of Nuremberg are displayed side by side: the dexter shield bearing the imperial eagle and the sinister shield bearing the Nuremberg diagonal bar (Schrägbalken). The date appears above the shields, flanked by a six-pointed star on each side, rendered as '1628'. Below the shields, the mint initial 'N' for Nuremberg is prominently placed in the field. The entire design is struck on a square klippe flan set on its corner in diamond orientation. |
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| Obverse lettering | *1628* N |
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Klippe issues from Nuremberg during the 1620s fall squarely within the Kipper und Wipperzeit, the currency debasement crisis that swept the Holy Roman Empire in the early Thirty Years' War period. Nuremberg, however, maintained a reputation for relatively honest minting when surrounding territories were systematically clipping and adulterating coinage to extract seigniorage profit. A square-struck silver piece at this weight sits at the heavier end of what the crisis period produced.
Klappen of this denomination were often presentation or pattern-adjacent pieces rather than everyday commerce coins.