2 Kreuzers - Ferdinand II

Hagenau's municipal coinage of this period was minted under mounting pressure — the Thirty Years' War had reached Alsace by the mid-1620s, disrupting trade routes and forcing many smaller civic authorities to issue emergency small change to keep local commerce functioning. The city's right to strike coin was a jealously guarded privilege, and these 2 Kreuzer pieces represent one of its last exercises of that right before imperial consolidation steadily eroded municipal minting authority across the region.

The E&L#64 reference places this squarely in Engel and Lehr's corpus of Alsatian civic issues — a relatively thin cataloguing tradition compared to imperial series, which partly explains why die varieties for Hagenau remain underreported.