1 Fürstengroschen

Göttingen struck Fürstengroschen under authorization from the Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel duchy, navigating the perpetual tension between civic minting rights and territorial overlordship that defined Lower Saxon municipal coinage in the mid-sixteenth century. The Fürstengroschen denomination itself was a regional convention — a fractional groschen type that circulated heavily in the Weser-Leine corridor during a period when the Schmalkaldic aftermath had disrupted larger coin flows across northern Germany.

The two-year window of 1566–67 likely reflects a specific minting contract rather than continuous production.