Simon Henry ruled Lippe for only four years, from 1671 until his death in 1675, making his thalers among the scarcer issues from that county. Lippe was a small but administratively independent territory in the Holy Roman Empire, and its right to strike full thalers at this weight standard reflected a jealously maintained coinage privilege.
The Dav. 6895 attribution places this squarely within Davenport's classification of German secular states — a category where short-reign pieces routinely go underappreciated relative to their actual scarcity.
Simon Henry ruled Lippe for only four years, from 1671 until his death in 1675, making his thalers among the scarcer issues from that county. Lippe was a small but administratively independent territory in the Holy Roman Empire, and its right to strike full thalers at this weight standard reflected a jealously maintained coinage privilege.
The Dav. 6895 attribution places this squarely within Davenport's classification of German secular states — a category where short-reign pieces routinely go underappreciated relative to their actual scarcity.