1 Dreier Klippe

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.