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1 Fürstengroschen
| Issuer | Magdeburg, City of |
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| Year | 1570 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Central field features the Imperial double-headed eagle displayed, with wings spread, each head crowned, and the orb-surmounted sceptre and sword rising above between the heads — emblems of Holy Roman Imperial authority. The breast of the eagle bears a shield or orb device. The date 1570 appears in the lower field of the eagle. The composition is rendered in the vigorous hammered style typical of sixteenth-century German groschen coinage. The surrounding Latin legend reads: MAX(I). Z. D. G. RO. IM. S. AV., an abbreviated titulature for Emperor Maximilian II, by the grace of God, Roman Emperor, always Augustus. |
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The Fürstengroschen was a denomination tied directly to the Kreistag monetary ordinances of the Holy Roman Empire, which attempted — with mixed success — to rationalize the chaotic proliferation of regional silver coinages in the mid-sixteenth century. Magdeburg's civic mint operated under constant tension between the city's own commercial interests and the monetary authority nominally exercised by the archbishopric, a friction that shaped much of the city's coinage output in this period.
Schrötter 1145 is a scarce attribution for this type.