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1 Groschen - Ernest III
| Issuer | Holstein-Schaumburg-Pinneberg, County of |
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| Year | 1620 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Quartered shield of arms bearing the four-fold coat of arms of the county with a central escutcheon of Schaumburg (the nettle-leaf), surmounted by three ornate crested helmets with elaborate mantling, arranged in typical heraldic fashion. The composition is set within a beaded inner circle, with the surrounding legend occupying the outer field. The engraving reflects the standard heraldic conventions of early 17th-century north German hammered coinage. |
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| Reverse lettering | E D G H S - E S C D (G). |
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Ernest III ruled Schaumburg-Pinneberg through its final decades as an independent county — the line died out with his son Otto XIV in 1640, after which the territory was divided among neighboring claimants. This groschen was struck during the Thirty Years' War, when small silver coinage across the German states was debased so aggressively that the period earned its own name: the Kipper- und Wipperzeit, a currency crisis from roughly 1619 to 1623 in which mints across the Empire raced to produce underweight coins before their neighbors could do the same.