1 Körtling - Philip Adolphus of Ehrenberg

Philip Adolphus von Ehrenberg became Prince-Bishop of Würzburg in 1623, the same year this coin was struck, and his tenure would become notorious — he presided over one of the most intensive witch trial campaigns in German history, with over 300 executions recorded in the diocese before his death in 1631. The Körtling itself was a fractional denomination tied to the collapsing Kipper und Wipper inflation crisis that had destabilized the Holy Roman Empire's coinage system since roughly 1619, when speculators and mints alike debased small silver coins aggressively. By 1623–24, stabilization efforts were forcing many ecclesiastical mints to adjust their output sharply.