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| 正面描述 | Central field occupied by the arms of Erfurt: a wheel device enclosed within a beaded inner circle, the whole surrounded by a peripheral Latin legend reading · ERFORTENSIVM · followed by the date, rendered with the characteristic Kipper-period substitution of 'Z' for '2'. The design is executed in a crude hammered style typical of the inflationary Kipper und Wipper coinage of the early 1620s. The legends and devices are somewhat weakly struck and irregularly centered, consistent with the hasty production methods of the period. |
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| 正面铭文 | · ERFORTENSIVM · 16Z1 |
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Erfurt's 12 Scherf Kipper dates to the most destructive phase of the Kipperzeit, the currency debasement crisis of 1619–1623 that devastated the Holy Roman Empire's monetary system. Municipal and territorial mints across central Germany raced to issue debased coinage, collecting sound money, melting it, and returning adulterated pieces at a profit — a scheme that collapsed local economies and triggered food riots in several cities. Erfurt, nominally under the Archbishop of Mainz yet functionally semi-autonomous, ran its own mint operations through this window. The copper composition here is the endpoint of that spiral.