1 Goldgulden - Philip Reinhard

Philip Reinhard ruled Solms-Hohensolms during the opening decade of the Thirty Years' War, and coinage from his county in 1627 falls squarely within the post-Kipper und Wipperzeit recovery period — a moment when smaller German territories were reasserting minting rights and restoring specie to near-standard fineness after years of deliberate debasement. The Kipper und Wipper crisis of 1619–1623 had seen dozens of minor counts and princes exploit imperial minting chaos for short-term fiscal gain; issues like this one, struck to high gold fineness, signal a return to credibility rather than opportunism.

Solms-Hohensolms was a tiny Wetterau county with full imperial immediacy, which entitled Philip Reinhard to strike gold. That right was jealously maintained even when output was negligible.