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1 Groschen - Ernest and Louis Christian
| Issuer | Stolberg-Wernigerode, County of |
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| Year | 1673-1674 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Reverse description | A nine-fold quartered shield displaying the combined arms of the County of Stolberg-Wernigerode, presented in heraldic style within the coin's field. The surrounding legend continues the comital titles of Ernst and Ludwig Christian in Latin script, separated by ornamental stops. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Ernest (Ernst) and Louis Christian (Ludwig Christian) ruled Stolberg-Wernigerode jointly during the early 1670s under the complex partition arrangements that characterized the fragmented Stolberg comital lines throughout the seventeenth century. Joint-name coinages from this county are notoriously short-lived — the co-regency period itself rarely lasted more than a few years before death or territorial division ended it — which compresses the striking window considerably. Friederich 1378 is a recognized rarity in the series.