15 Kreuzer

Konstanz struck this 15 Kreuzer in 1636, deep into the Thirty Years' War, when the city was navigating an increasingly precarious position as an Imperial free city on the Swiss border. Emergency and fractional silver issues proliferated across the southern German cities during this period as monetary systems buckled under wartime disruption and the near-constant movement of armies demanding billeted payment.

Nau's attribution places this among a documented sequence of Konstanz silver issues from the 1630s, a decade when the city's mint was intermittently active in response to acute coin shortages rather than routine civic production.