1 Mariengroschen - Frederick William Leopold

Lippe's coinage in the late eighteenth century operated under the peculiar circumstances of a tiny imperial county still exercising minting rights that larger German states were quietly surrendering or consolidating. The Mariengroschen was a denominational holdover from much earlier north German monetary tradition, kept in circulation well past its economic relevance largely because the local peasantry trusted familiar coin names over Enlightenment-era monetary reforms.

Frederick William Leopold ruled Lippe from 1782 until his death in 1800, a period during which the county's mint output was modest and administrative rather than ambitious.