3 Kreuzers - Ulrich VIII

Montfort-Rothenfels was one of the smallest and most financially precarious branches of the Montfort dynasty, which had been steadily fragmenting through inheritance divisions since the thirteenth century. By Ulrich VIII's rule in the 1570s, the county's territory around the Lake Constance region was so diminished that issuing coinage at all required asserting comital privileges the family could barely sustain politically. The 3 Kreuzer denomination was the workhorse of small commerce in the Upper Swabian sphere, making this a pragmatic issue rather than a prestige one.

Ulrich VIII died in 1574, leaving no male heirs, which effectively ended the Rothenfels line and folded its remnant holdings back into neighboring Montfort branches. The short window of his rule makes surviving pieces from this county genuinely uncommon.