1 Groschen - Theodore of Fürstenberg

Theodore of Fürstenberg governed Paderborn through some of the most turbulent confessional politics in the Westphalian region, his episcopate defined by the aggressive re-Catholicization of territories that had drifted toward Lutheranism during the previous generation. This groschen was struck at the precise moment the Thirty Years' War was becoming unavoidable — three years before the Defenestration of Prague. The Schwede 40 d/b designation distinguishes this specific die pairing from the closely related variants catalogued under the same KM type, a distinction that matters for completeness collectors working through the Paderborn series.