2 Schillings - Henry V

Mecklenburg's 2 Schilling pieces of this period fall within the early Schreckenberger-influenced coinage of the northern German territories, struck as the Reformation was fracturing both ecclesiastical and secular monetary authority across the region. Henry V ruled jointly with his brother Albrecht VII, a dynastic arrangement that complicated coin production and accounts for the die variants catalogued under Kunzel 35 and 36 — likely reflecting output from more than one working period or administrative authority within the brief two-year window.