1 Groschen

Stralsund spent much of the early seventeenth century navigating the fractious politics of the southern Baltic coast, nominally under Swedish influence but fiercely protective of its municipal privileges as a Hanseatic city. This groschen was struck in the years immediately preceding the Thirty Years' War, a conflict that would bring Swedish troops directly into Stralsund and eventually make the city a Swedish imperial possession by 1648. The mint operated under city authority during this window precisely because that authority was still intact — a condition that would not survive the century unchanged.