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12 Kreuzers
| Issuer | City of Weissenburg am Rhein |
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| Year | 1622-1626 |
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| Currency | Thaler |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Double-headed imperial eagle displayed with wings spread, bearing on its breast a shield inscribed with the Roman numeral denomination XII. The eagle is surmounted by a crown, and the surrounding legend carries the imperial titles of Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor. The composition follows the standard Kipper und Wipperzeit imperial eagle type common to early seventeenth-century German municipal issues. |
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Weissenburg am Rhein struck these 12 Kreuzer pieces during the Kipper- und Wipperzeit, the catastrophic debasement crisis that swept the Holy Roman Empire in the early 1620s. Municipal authorities across the Empire scrambled to issue their own coinage as imperial monetary order collapsed, often with wildly inconsistent silver content. That Weissenburg maintained a 5.1g silver piece across a four-year window is itself notable — many comparable civic issues degraded sharply within months.