3 Flitter Kipper issue

The Kipper und Wipperzeit ("clipper and seesaw" period) of 1619–1623 was one of the worst monetary catastrophes in German history — princes, cities, and ecclesiastical authorities alike debased coinage so aggressively that the entire Holy Roman Empire's small-change economy effectively collapsed. Einbeck, a once-prosperous Hanseatic brewing town already diminished by the Thirty Years' War, participated in this debasement frenzy alongside hundreds of other issuers. The "Flitter" denomination was among the most debased of all — a copper piece assigned an inflated face value it could not honestly sustain.

Buck's cataloguing of this piece as Ei#71 places it within a documented local series, but Einbeck's Kipper output remains poorly studied compared to larger minting centers.