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3 Kreuzers - Ernest II
| Issuer | Solms-Lich, County of |
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| Year | 1612-1920 |
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| Currency | Thaler |
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| Obverse lettering | PHILIPPUS CO I SOLMS LICH |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Ernest II ruled Solms-Lich during a period when the fragmented political structure of the Holy Roman Empire allowed even minor counties to exercise minting rights — a privilege jealously guarded as both revenue source and assertion of sovereignty. The 3 Kreuzer denomination was workhorse small change in the Rhineland, struck by dozens of petty lordships simultaneously, which made counterfeiting and debasement endemic and nearly impossible to police across jurisdictional lines.
KM#19 for this county is sparsely documented in the major references, and surviving examples tend to surface in regional German collections rather than international auctions.