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1/2 Groten Gold pattern strike
| Issuer | Free City of Bremen |
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| Year | 1771 |
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| Value | 1/2 Groten (1⁄144) |
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| Obverse description | Central device depicts the crowned arms of Bremen — a heraldic key — set within a quartered shield, displayed prominently in the field. The shield is surmounted by a municipal crown. The circular legend reads MON. NOV. REIP. BREM. (New Money of the Republic of Bremen), arranged around the periphery in Latin capital letters. The coin exhibits a milled or beaded border encircling the entire design. |
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| Obverse lettering | MON. NOV. REIP. BREM. |
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Bremen's half-groten was a copper circulation piece of negligible face value. Striking one in near-pure gold in 1771 served no commercial purpose — pattern strikes at this denomination were almost certainly produced for presentation to city councillors or visiting dignitaries, a practice common among the German free cities who used such pieces to demonstrate the technical competence of their municipal mint rather than to trial a proposed coinage.
KM#Pn 30 is sparsely documented, and surviving examples are extremely rare. The 1771 date places it during the period when Bremen's mint was operating under increasingly constrained circumstances before its eventual closure.