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28 Stüber - Anthony Günther
| Issuer | Lordship of Jever |
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| Year | 1637-1649 |
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| Value | 28 Stüber = 1 Gulden (⅔) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Central field displays a spread Imperial double-headed eagle rendered in the baroque style, with both heads shown in profile facing outward and surmounted by a single Imperial crown above the junction of the necks. The numeral 28, denoting the denomination in Stüber, is placed on an oval escutcheon at the center of the eagle's breast. The peripheral Latin legend FERD • III • D • G • ROM • IMP • SEMP • AVG • encircles the design, separated by a beaded inner border, identifying the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand III as the suzerain authority under whose reign the coin was issued. |
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Anthony Günther of Oldenburg held Jever as a personal lordship, and the 28 Stüber denomination was peculiar to the northwest German regional accounting system — a denomination that made commercial sense along the Frisian coast but would have been nearly incomprehensible fifty miles inland. These were struck during the grinding final decade of the Thirty Years' War, when Westphalia was being bled dry by troop quartering, forced contributions, and supply requisitions from every belligerent faction crossing the region.
Anthony Günther died in 1667 without legitimate heirs, after which Jever passed to Anhalt-Zerbst. This issue predates that transfer by a generation.