3 Thalers Siege currency

Jülich fell under siege in 1610 as part of the Jülich-Cleves succession crisis, triggered by the death of Duke Johann Wilhelm without a clear heir. The resulting standoff drew in Habsburg forces under Archduke Leopold against a coalition including Brandenburg, Neuburg, the Dutch Republic, and France under Henri IV. The city's emergency coinage was struck from whatever silver could be gathered — plate, bullion, ecclesiastical metalwork — weighed and struck into multiples purely to pay garrison and suppliers when normal supply lines were cut.

KM#7 represents the 3-thaler denomination, the heaviest of the Jülich siege series. The city surrendered in September 1610.