1 Dreier - Wolrad IV, Philip VII and John II

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.