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1 Mattier - Simon August
| Issuer | Principality of Lippe |
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| Year | 1763 |
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| Weight | 0.7 g |
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| Obverse lettering | SIMON AUG: D: G: COM: & NOB: D: IN LIPPE |
| Reverse description | Central field bears a three-line inscription within a beaded inner circle, reading the denomination and date. Surrounding the inner circle, the peripheral legend runs along the outer field, referencing the Leipzig coinage standard. The lettering appears in bold relief against a flat field. The outer border is dentilated, consistent with milled coinage of the period. The reverse convention follows the standard format for small billon issues of the North German principalities of the mid-eighteenth century. |
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The 1763 date places this issue in the final year of the Seven Years' War, a conflict that had devastated the treasury of virtually every German principality. Lippe, a tiny state under Simon August, resorted to billon coinage — heavily debased silver — as a practical response to metal shortages that made pure silver currency politically and financially untenable for small denominations.