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24 Kreuzer - Philip Ernest of Langenburg Kipper
| Issuer | Hohenlohe-Langenburg, County of |
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| Year | 1622 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#12 |
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| Reverse description | Crowned double-headed imperial eagle displayed, with wings spread, bearing a circular orb on the breast inscribed with the denomination '24'. The legend surrounds the eagle between the inner field and the milled outer border, with the date distributed within the legend. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Philip Ernest issued this 24 Kreuzer during the Kipper- und Wipperzeit, the currency crisis of 1619–1623 in which hundreds of German mints — including many tiny imperial lordships like Hohenlohe-Langenburg — debased their coinage aggressively, then passed the degraded coins into neighboring territories before the fraud was detected. The practice was essentially state-sanctioned counterfeiting at scale, and small counts exploited their minting rights precisely because they had little else to lose.
Hohenlohe-Langenburg's output from this period is scarce by any measure. KM#12 is rarely encountered today.