1 Kreuzer

Ravensburg's copper kreuzer of 1622 falls squarely within the Kipper- und Wipperzeit, the currency debasement crisis that swept the Holy Roman Empire from roughly 1619 to 1623. Municipal and territorial mints across the Empire flooded circulation with underweight, base-metal coinage to exploit the difference between face value and metal content — a race to debase that destabilized trade networks and triggered severe inflation. Ravensburg, a Free Imperial City with a long merchant history tied to the old Ravensburg Trading Company, was not immune to the pressures that drove smaller minting authorities into opportunistic copper issues.