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1 Dreier - Louis II, Henry XXI, Albert George and Christian I
| Issuer | Stolberg, County of |
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| Year | 1556-1561 |
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| Value | 1 Dreier = 3 Pfennig (1⁄84) |
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| Obverse lettering | SEW |
| Reverse description | An ornate crested helm rendered in profile or facing, surmounted by an elaborate decorative crest with scrolling mantling extending to either side, as was customary on the armorial coinage of the German principalities in the sixteenth century. The helmet and its accompanying flourishes fill the flan, with a beaded border visible at the coin's periphery. The die engraving exhibits the bold, slightly coarse style characteristic of hammered small denomination coinage of the period. |
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The four counts named on this coin — Louis II, Henry XXI, Albert George, and Christian I — ruled Stolberg jointly under the dynastic co-regency system that characterized the small German territories of the Holy Roman Empire throughout the sixteenth century. Stolberg's partition agreements repeatedly divided and recombined authority among branches of the same family, making issues bearing multiple names both administratively necessary and chronologically narrow. The 1556–1561 window corresponds to a specific alignment of living co-rulers that closed when the family lines diverged again.