8 Gute Groschen - Henry Ernest I

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.