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16 Gute Groschen - George William
| Issuer | County of Leiningen-Westerburg |
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| Year | 1676 |
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| Currency | Thaler |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | GEORG WILH D G COM IN LEIN ET WEST D IN CULM |
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George William ruled Leiningen-Westerburg during one of the most disruptive periods in the county's history — the aftermath of the Thirty Years' War had left the Rhenish territories economically fractured, and the Holy Roman Empire's monetary system remained in persistent disorder through the 1670s under the shadow of earlier Kipper und Wipper debasement. The 16 Gute Groschen denomination was a deliberate assertion of sound-money values, the word "Gute" (good) signaling explicitly that these coins met proper silver standards at a time when that claim actually needed making.