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1 Dreier - Wolrad IV, Philip VII and John II
| Issuer | County of Waldeck |
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| Year | 1638 |
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| Value | 3 Pfennig = 1 Dreier (1⁄96) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | WALDE LANTMV 16 [Leaf] 38 |
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Waldeck's copper Dreier issues of the 1630s reflect the monetary chaos of the Thirty Years' War, during which dozens of petty German territories struck low-denomination copper coinage to fill a vacuum left by hoarded silver. This piece was issued jointly under three counts — Wolrad IV, Philip VII, and John II — a co-regency arrangement common in Waldeck, where the county was repeatedly partitioned and reunified among competing branches of the house. The joint inscription was administrative necessity, not ceremony.