60 Kreuzers - John Louis

John Louis (Johann Ludwig) ruled Solms-Hohensolms during the long economic disruption that followed the Thirty Years' War, and the 60 Kreuzer denomination — sometimes called the Gulden or two-thirds thaler — was itself a product of that disruption. The "two-thirds standard" emerged from the Leipzig Convention of 1690 in its fully codified form, but experimental issues at this ratio circulated through the 1670s as German states jockeyed for a workable replacement for the debased coinage the war had left behind.

The multiple Sol references (274a, 274b, etc.) suggest die variants exist within the type — not unusual for a small county mint operating without the rigorous punch standardization of larger imperial workshops.