3 Kreuzers - John II

John II ruled Palatinate-Zweibrücken from 1604 until his death in 1635, but this issue spans only the middle stretch of his reign — years that coincided with the collapse of the fragile peace preceding the Thirty Years' War. The duchy sat geographically exposed between France and the confessional fault lines of the Empire, and John II's Reformed Protestant allegiances made his small court a point of political friction long before Swedish and Imperial armies began moving through the Rhineland.

Slg. Memme 2678 places this firmly within the documented Zweibrücken coinage sequence, a collection reference that remains the primary anchor for attributing the duchy's minor silver issues.