1 Groschen - Volrat VI, Wolfgang III and John George II Zwittergroschen

The Mansfeld counties spent much of the early seventeenth century in financial and political freefall. By 1627, the territory had been subdivided so many times among competing Mansfeld lines that joint coinages became a practical necessity rather than a ceremonial gesture. A Zwittergroschen — literally a "hybrid" or "mule" groschen — combined dies from different issuing authorities, in this case reflecting the awkward co-rule of three counts simultaneously administering overlapping jurisdictions during the opening decade of the Thirty Years' War.

Mansfeld's silver mines, once among the most productive in Saxony, were in serious decline by this point, and the county's minting activity in the 1620s is notably erratic in both output and alloy consistency.