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1 Batzen - Eberhard IV
| Issuer | Königstein, Counts of |
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| Year | 1523-1534 |
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| Value | 1 Batzen = 4 Kreuzer (1⁄18) |
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| Obverse description | Two adjacent heraldic shields occupying the central field: the dexter shield bearing the arms of Königstein-Dietz and the sinister shield bearing the arms of Eppstein-Münzenberg. The date appears above the shields, with the letter 'N' positioned below. The surrounding legend is rendered in Latin within a beaded border. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Königstein was a small Rhenish county that ceased to exist entirely in 1535 when it passed by inheritance to the Counts of Stolberg. The batzen issues struck under Eberhard IV in the decade before that extinction represent the final assertion of independent minting rights by the Königstein line — a right that lapsed with the county itself.