Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
1 Kreuzer - Louis V Kipper
| Issuer | Hesse-Darmstadt |
|---|---|
| Year | 1622 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | 1 Kreuzer (1⁄144) |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse script | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | I KREV ZER 16ZZ |
| Edge | Log in to see details |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Additional information |
Kipper und Wipperzeit — the "clipper and see-saw time" — was a currency crisis that swept the Holy Roman Empire between roughly 1619 and 1623, driven by princes and city mints deliberately debasing their coinage to profit from the difference between face value and metal content before passing the bad coins into neighboring territories. Hesse-Darmstadt was among the participants. This kreuzer belongs to that frantic minting episode, when output volume mattered far more than quality or consistency, which accounts for the erratic fabric and variable flan preparation seen across surviving examples of this type.