1/2 Batzen - Charles, Wolfgang, Martin, Ludwig XV

The County of Oettingen was split among multiple co-ruling lines throughout the early sixteenth century, and this coin reflects that directly — the four named rulers governed simultaneously under the fractured inheritance arrangements common to the Imperial German nobility of the period. Joint-rule coinages of this kind were administratively awkward and typically short-lived, which accounts for the narrow three-year window of issue.