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1 Dreier
| Issuer | Goslar, City of |
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| Year | 1676 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse description | Large ornate stylized monogram 'G' for Goslar dominates the central field, rendered in an interlaced calligraphic style characteristic of late 17th-century German municipal coinage. The abbreviated city name 'GOSL' appears flanking the lower portion of the monogram, with the date 1676 inscribed in two numerals below. The design occupies nearly the full flan with minimal border treatment. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Goslar's civic coinage in the 1670s was issued under increasingly strained circumstances — the city's famous Rammelsberg silver mines, which had sustained local minting for centuries, were in serious decline by this period, their richest veins exhausted after nearly 700 years of continuous extraction. The Dreier denomination itself was a minor regional piece, struck for everyday commerce in the fragmented currency environment of the post-Westphalian Holy Roman Empire.
BBK#414a distinguishes this from related varieties in the series; collectors working the Goslar civic sequence should cross-reference Behrens carefully, as attribution errors between closely dated Dreier types are not uncommon in older collections.