Stuiver - Leopold Philip Carl of Salm

The Lordship of Anholt occupied an unusual position in the mid-seventeenth century — a small Westphalian territory whose minting rights survived the 1648 Peace of Münster largely because Leopold Philip Carl of Salm-Salm was shrewd enough to maintain relations with both the Spanish Netherlands and the Habsburg court simultaneously. The stuiver issues attributed to his tenure span a sixteen-year window that brackets the end of the Thirty Years' War, meaning early strikes circulated into a region still being physically rebuilt.

Sal numbers 226 through 229 represent distinct die pairings rather than separate denominations — the grouping reflects documented obverse and reverse combinations catalogued by Joseph rather than meaningful type breaks.