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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;talerman, post: 3103328, member: 89314&quot;]For some reason or other I have stopped receiving notifications that someone had added something to this thread.&nbsp; I thought things had gone surprisingly quiet so I checked and indeed found some new coins and years had been added, so let me make a contribution.</p><p><br /></p><p>1619 - 1622 is, of course, the time of the so-called <i>Kipper- und Wipperzeit</i> in the Holy Roman Empire, the time at the beginning of the Thirty Years&#039; War when numerous mints, official and unofficial , struck a plethora of debased coinage, ending in ruinous inflation. Here are a few Kipper coins:</p><p><br /></p><p>1622 Austria-Hungary Ferdinand II Graz mint&nbsp; Kipper Taler of 150 Kreuzer</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]785785[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]785786[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>1622 Austria- Hungary Ferdinand II Kipper 75 Kreuzer struck in Brunn, Moravia</p><p><br /></p><p>A consortium led by a Flemish businessman, Hans de Witte (other members were Wallenstein, Karl von Liechstenstein and their main financier,&nbsp; Javob Bassevi), purchased from Emperor Ferdinand II a patent for a year (Jan.1622-March 1623)&nbsp; to strike 150 and 75 Kreuzer, 1/2 gulden (37 1/2 kr.) and groschen in Bohemia, Moravia &amp; Austria under the Enns . </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]785782[/ATTACH] </p><p>u</p><p>[ATTACH=full]785783[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>1621 Austria-Hungary Ferdinand II Kipper 48 Kreuzer&nbsp; Graz mint (value not easily visible but in orb on eagle&#039;s breast)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]785792[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]785793[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Germany STRALSUND Kipper Taler (32 schilling) 23.12 g&nbsp; Apart from the weight well below the standard 28 g for a Taler,&nbsp; the arrowhead under the cross on the obverse faces downwards, the opposite to regular Stralsund issues.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]785803[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]785804[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Finally an undated Kipper 24 Kreuzer of Saxe-Alte-Altenburg struck at Lucka</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]785807[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]785808[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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