1 Groschen - Philip Sigismund of Brunswick Wolfenbüttel

Philip Sigismund held the Bishopric of Verden as a Protestant administrator — one of several ecclesiastical territories in northern Germany where Lutheran princes quietly displaced Catholic authority while technically maintaining the forms of church governance. His tenure ended with his death in 1623, and Verden itself would be fought over repeatedly during the Thirty Years' War, eventually passing to Sweden under the Peace of Westphalia. This groschen dates to the war's opening years, when Imperial and Protestant forces were still maneuvering before the large-scale devastation that would hollow out the region's population and economy entirely.