2 Schillings - Reinhard I

Schönforst was a minor Rhenish lordship whose coinage rights were exercised by Reinhard I during a period when the lower Rhine was saturated with competing local issues — many of them debased. This piece falls within that fractious monetary environment where smaller lords struck silver partly to assert jurisdictional standing, partly because the demand for small-denomination coin genuinely outpaced what the larger minting authorities could supply.

The Menadier reference places this among a tightly catalogued group; the vdCh 8 variants 29.11–12 indicate at least two documented die pairings exist for this type.