1 Körtling

Schweinfurt struck copper Körtlinge in 1622 at the height of the Kipper- und Wipperzeit, the catastrophic currency debasement crisis that swept the Holy Roman Empire between roughly 1618 and 1623. Municipal and minor territorial mints across Germany flooded circulation with debased or overvalued small change during this period, exploiting exchange rate arbitrage until the system collapsed under its own fraud. Schweinfurt, a Free Imperial City on the Main, was among dozens of civic mints that issued emergency copper coinage to fill the vacuum left by hoarded silver.

The Slg. Kraaz reference places this among a well-documented but genuinely scarce group of civic copper issues from the crisis years.