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2 Pfennig - Louis V
| Issuer | Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt (Hesse-Darmstadt, German States) |
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| Year | 1621-1622 |
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| Currency | Thaler (1568-1805) |
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| Obverse description | Central field bears the rampant Hessian lion facing left, a traditional heraldic device of the Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt, flanked by the abbreviated Latin legend divided on either side of the figure. The initials L L Z H, referencing Landgraf Ludwig zu Hessen, appear in the surrounding field. The coin is struck in a crude hammered style typical of small German States emergency coinage of the early Kipper und Wipper period. A beaded inner border encircles the design. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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The 1621–1622 dating places this coin squarely in the opening years of the Thirty Years' War, a period when the Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt under Louis V found itself in an extremely difficult political position. Louis backed the Habsburg-Imperial cause while neighboring Hesse-Kassel aligned with the Protestant Union — a split between the two Hessian lines that turned a family rivalry into a geopolitical fault line. Small silver fractions like this circulated in conditions of profound monetary instability, as the Kipper und Wipper crisis of 1619–1623 saw systematic debasement of coinage across the German states on a scale that destabilized regional trade for years.