1 Groschen - Ernest and Louis Christian

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.