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1 Groschen - Justus Hermann
| Issuer | Holstein-Schaumburg-Pinneberg, County of |
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| Year | 1622-1635 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Central imperial orb topped by a cross, enclosing the value numeral '24' within a beaded inner circle, with the date divided to either side of the orb. The surrounding legend names the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II with his titles in abbreviated Latin. A beaded inner border frames the design, consistent with the Kipper und Wipper-era 24-Groschen standard coinage struck for the Holy Roman Empire. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Holstein-Schaumburg-Pinneberg was one of the more precarious of the small north German counties that proliferated under the Kipper- und Wipperzeit, the catastrophic currency debasement crisis of 1619–1623 in which dozens of minor German rulers exploited imperial minting rights to flood markets with debased coin. Justus Hermann, who issued under the county's divided inheritance arrangements, was minting during a period when groschen of wildly varying fineness circulated interchangeably, eroding public trust in small silver denomination entirely.
The county itself was extinguished in 1640 when the male line failed, absorbed by Holstein-Sonderburg. Issues from the terminal decades of the county's existence are accordingly scarce.