3 Kreuzers - Eberhard and Hermann Adolphus

Solms-Lich in the late sixteenth century was governed under a system of joint rule, with Eberhard and Hermann Adolphus issuing coinage together as co-counts — a dynastic arrangement common among the fragmented Wetterau territories, where inheritance laws repeatedly split already modest lordships between brothers. The 3 Kreuzer denomination was the workhorse of petty commerce in the Holy Roman Empire during this period, and the Solms counts exercised their minting rights partly as a matter of prestige, partly to supply a genuinely coin-starved regional market.

Joseph Sol#58f suggests minor die variants exist within this type.