Holstein-Schaumburg-Pinneberg was among the smallest and most administratively tangled of the North German counties, its territory repeatedly subdivided through inheritance disputes across the sixteenth century. Adolphus XIII ruled as the last count of the undivided line before the county's fragmentation accelerated following his death in 1601.
Davenport's attribution places this among a tightly catalogued group of large silver issues from the minor Holstein territories — Weinmeister's separate numbering reflects genuine die and authority distinctions that earlier cataloguers collapsed together.
Holstein-Schaumburg-Pinneberg was among the smallest and most administratively tangled of the North German counties, its territory repeatedly subdivided through inheritance disputes across the sixteenth century. Adolphus XIII ruled as the last count of the undivided line before the county's fragmentation accelerated following his death in 1601.
Davenport's attribution places this among a tightly catalogued group of large silver issues from the minor Holstein territories — Weinmeister's separate numbering reflects genuine die and authority distinctions that earlier cataloguers collapsed together.