1 Groschen - Frederick Ulrich

Frederick Ulrich's reign over Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel was one of the more chaotic in the duchy's history — a Protestant ruler whose territory became a recurring battleground during the early phases of the Thirty Years' War, which broke out the very year this groschen was struck. The duchy's silver coinage of this period was produced under persistent pressure from the Kipper und Wipper crisis, the debasement wave then spreading across the German states, though this 1619 issue predates the worst of that depreciation spiral by roughly two years.