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1 Groschen - Henry XXII and Wolfgang George
| Issuer | Stolberg, County of |
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| Year | 1613-1615 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse lettering | HENRIC: XXII: ET: WOLFFG: GEORG: D: G: COM: IN: STOLB: |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Stolberg's joint coinage under Henry XXII and Wolfgang George reflects the county's practice of co-rulership among Stolberg-Stolberg heirs, a dynastic arrangement that produced a relatively brief and administratively awkward series of shared issues. The county's minting rights, though modest in scope, were exercised with some regularity during this period as small silver denominations served local Harz region commerce.
The three-year window for this type is narrow enough that surviving examples are scarce without being dramatically rare — Friederich's documentation of the type suggests limited die production rather than high-volume striking.