3 Kreuzers - Philip

Solms-Hohensolms was a small Wetterau county whose minting activity in the early seventeenth century reflected the fragmented monetary chaos of the Holy Roman Empire — dozens of petty lords exercising their imperial minting privileges simultaneously, flooding regional markets with small silver. Philip Count of Solms-Hohensolms ruled from 1583 until his death in 1619, and this Kreuzer issue spans the years just before the Thirty Years' War collapsed what little monetary discipline remained in the region.