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1 Dreier 'Kerzendreier'
| Issuer | Nuremberg, Free imperial city of |
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| Value | 1 Dreier = 3 Pfennig (1⁄80) |
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| Reverse description | A radiant sun with a facing human visage at centre, surrounded by alternating long and short rays filling the entire field, evoking the motif of the sun as a great light contained in small compass. The circular legend MAGNVS IN PARVO. runs along the periphery within the milled border. The engraver's initials G.F.N. appear in the lower exergue beneath the solar disk. |
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| Reverse lettering | MAGNVS IN PARVO. |
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The "Kerzendreier" — candle-dreier — takes its name from the tall, tapered shape of the denomination mark rendered on the coin, a quirk of Nuremberg's local engraving tradition distinctive enough that collectors applied the nickname centuries before formal cataloguing began. Nuremberg's civic mint operated under continuous pressure from the imperial authorities throughout the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to conform to the Reichsmünzordnung, the imperial coinage ordinances that repeatedly tried and largely failed to standardize the fragmented currency of the Holy Roman Empire.