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1/2 Groten
| Issuer | Bremen, City of |
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| Year | 1781 |
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| Value | 1/2 Groten (1⁄144) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Bremen's fractional billon coinage of the late eighteenth century was produced to address chronic shortages of small change in the city-state's daily market economy — a problem that plagued virtually every minor German issuing authority through this period. The 1/2 Groten sat at the lowest practical tier of Bremen's monetary system, handled by the people most likely to wear it flat.
KM#216 is not a scarce type, but survivors in collectible condition are harder to locate than mintage logic would suggest — low-denomination billon coins were spent until they dissolved.