4 Mariengroschen - Simon Henry

Simon Henry ruled Lippe from 1666 until his death in 1697, a period when the small north German county was navigating the fractured politics of post-Westphalian Germany. The 4 Mariengroschen denomination was a practical workhorse of regional commerce in the Lower Saxon Circle, tariffed under the Leipzig Foot and its successors as imperial monetary reform ground slowly forward through the latter half of the seventeenth century.

KM#83 is not a common type. Lippe's output was modest by any measure, and Simon Henry's minting activity across the 1670s was intermittent rather than sustained.