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.
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.