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8 Gute Groschen - Henry Ernest I
| Issuer | Stolberg-Wernigerode, County of |
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| Year | 1671-1672 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | WERN.ET.HO.DOMIN.EP.MIN.B.LOR.ET.CLET |
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Henry Ernest I ruled Stolberg-Wernigerode during a period when the county was still recovering from the devastation of the Thirty Years' War, which had ended barely two decades before this issue. The 8 Gute Groschen denomination placed this coin within the post-war currency reform framework pushed by the Leipzig Convention of 1667, which attempted to standardize the chaotic coinage flooding the smaller German principalities.
Stolberg-Wernigerode operated its own mint rights as an Imperial County, though output was modest and issues from this two-year window are scarce survivors today.