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3 Kreuzers - Hermann Adolphus
| Issuer | County of Solms-Hohensolms |
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| Year | 1612 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Hermann Adolphus ruled Solms-Hohensolms as part of the fragmented Solms dynasty, which had subdivided its territories repeatedly through inheritance partitions across the sixteenth century — a process that left each branch with just enough sovereignty to strike coin but rarely enough revenue to do it consistently. The 1612 date places this issue two years before the Counts of Solms-Hohensolms would become entangled in the confessional tensions preceding the Thirty Years' War, a conflict that effectively ended meaningful independent coinage across most of the smaller Rhenish counties within a decade.