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1 Fürstengroschen
| Issuer | Göttingen, City of |
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| Year | 1566-1567 |
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| Weight | 1.75 g |
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| Obverse description | Central crowned Gothic letter 'G' superimposed upon a cross, all set within a beaded inner circle. The last two digits of the date flank the crowned 'G' to either side. The surrounding legend is arranged in segments reading MON ET NOVA GOT, abbreviating 'Moneta Nova Gottingensis' (New Money of Göttingen), inscribed within the outer field in Latin characters. |
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| Obverse lettering | MON / ET.N / OVA. / GOT. 6 / 7 |
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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.