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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 1180067, member: 39&quot;]The coins showing Gustav were minted at various places, e.g. Stockholm or Stettin (Szczecin). Hessen-Kassel was an ally of Gustaf II Adolf in the Thirty Years War; guess that Clinker wanted to show us coins from the &quot;dominant force&quot; at that time and place. Here is a PDF file that shows (on a background of the mint building in Kassel) various &quot;local&quot; rulers and coins: <a href="http://www.muenzfreunde-darmstadt.de/5_Aktivitaeten/4_Muenzboerse/4_Belegung/2010MuenzstaetteKassel.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.muenzfreunde-darmstadt.de/5_Aktivitaeten/4_Muenzboerse/4_Belegung/2010MuenzstaetteKassel.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.muenzfreunde-darmstadt.de/5_Aktivitaeten/4_Muenzboerse/4_Belegung/2010MuenzstaetteKassel.pdf</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Side note: Mercenaries from Hessen-Kassel fought on the side of the English in the Revolutionary War. Roughly 15,000 were &quot;transferred&quot; to the US to fight those people who wanted to be independent. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> About 1,500 were killed, many were captured ... and quite a few were able to escape and then settled where they had been supposed to fight.</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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