24 Kreuzer - Philip Ernest of Langenburg Kipper

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.