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1 Fürstengroschen - Ernest III Kipper
| Issuer | Holstein-Schaumburg-Pinneberg, County of |
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| Year | 1621 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Reverse description | Crowned double-headed imperial eagle displayed, with spread wings, occupying the central field. A round orb on the eagle's breast bears the denomination numeral 21, indicating the coin's value as the 21st part of a Thaler. A circular Latin legend surrounds the design, referencing the denomination. The flan is irregular and the strike somewhat weak at the margins, characteristic of Kipper coinage of the early 1620s. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Issued at the height of the Kipper- und Wipperzeit — the catastrophic debasement crisis that swept the Holy Roman Empire between roughly 1619 and 1623 — this piece belongs to one of the most chaotic episodes in early modern monetary history. Hundreds of minor German territorial lords exploited the absence of central monetary enforcement to mint debased silver coins, collect good metal in exchange, and flood neighboring territories with the inferior product. Holstein-Schaumburg-Pinneberg was a minor county caught in the middle of it.
KM#116 under Ernest III. The county was absorbed into Hesse-Cassel shortly after his death in 1622.