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1 Dreier - Ernest I, Bodo II and Kaspar Ulrich
| Issuer | County of Regenstein |
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| Year | 1565 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Reverse description | Displayed imperial double-headed eagle with spread wings and feathered detail, occupying the full field of the coin. The eagle is rendered in the characteristic style of mid-16th century German small coinage, with no surrounding legend. The strike is typical of hammered production, showing slight irregularity in the planchet edges. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The County of Regenstein was a small and persistently cash-poor Harz region lordship that spent much of the sixteenth century in financial and jurisdictional disputes with the surrounding Duchy of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel. By 1565, the county was under the joint rule of Ernest I, Bodo II, and Kaspar Ulrich — a fragmented co-inheritance that was itself symptomatic of the dynasty's inability to consolidate holdings. The line died out entirely in 1599, when the territory was absorbed by Brunswick.
The Dreier denomination — worth three Pfennig — was the workhorse of small daily transactions across the northern German states in this period.