Silver groschen (3-kreuzer) naming Johan I (1569-1604) and the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolph II (1576-1612), dated 1601, County Palatine of Zweibrucken, Germany

Coat of arms and date 1601, inscriptions around / Imperial eagle, denomination (3) and inscriptions around. 22mm, 1.78 grams. KM #2, Saurma-Jeltsch 2014.

Palatine Zweibrucken (German: Pfalz-Zweibrücken), or the County Palatine of Zweibrucken, is a former state of the Holy Roman Empire. Its capital was Zweibrucken (French: Deux-Ponts). Its reigning house, a branch of the Wittelsbach dynasty, was also the Royal House of Sweden from 1654 to 1720.