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1617, East Friesland, Enno III. Silver Schilling (6 Stuber) Coin. (VF+) Scarce!

Reference: KM-70.
Mint Place: Emden
Mint Year: ca. 1617 (not dated)
Denomination: Schilling (6 Stuber)
Mint Official: Johann von Romunde
Condition: Weakly struck as usual, mint-made planchet imperfections, otherwise VF+
Diameter: 30mm
Weight: 5.13gm
Material: Silver

Obverse: Crowned composite coat-of-arms of East Friesland on X-shaped Burgundian cross, which splitts legends.
Legend: MO NO ENN CO ET DO FRI ORI  

Reverse: Crown above double headed Imperial eagle facing. Titles of Emperor Matthias I around.
Legend: MATH I D G EL RO IMP SEM AVG. 

East Frisia or Eastern Friesland (German: Ostfriesland; East Frisian Low Saxon: Oostfreesland; Dutch: Oost-Friesland; West Frisian:Eastfryslân) is a coastal region in the northwest of the German federal state of Lower Saxony. It is the section of Frisia in between West Frisia and Middle Frisia in the Netherlands and North Frisia in Schleswig-Holstein.

Enno III of Ostfriesland or Enno III of East Frisia (30 September 1563, Aurich – 19 August 1625) was a Count of Ostfriesland from 1599 to 1625 from the Cirksena family. He was the elder son of Count Edzard II of Ostfriesland and his wife Princess Katarina of Sweden, eldest daughter of King Gustav I of Sweden.

In 1602 Enno III's troops laid siege to Emden, without success; On 8 April 1603 Enno had to sign the Treaty of The Hague in which he not only accepted the presence of a Dutch garrison in Emden, but agreed to pay the costs for the Dutch garrison. In 1609 the conflict broke out again; the Emders were victorious in a skirmish at Greetsiel and temporarily occupied the Count's residence at Aurich. In 1611 the Dutch garrisoned troops in Leerort. On 24 May the Accord of Osterhusen was signed, which limited the sovereignty of the Count of East Frisia, stated the rights of the Estates (including Emden) and legitimised the Dutch garrison in Leerort.