1 Gosler

The Gosler was a small silver fraction circulating in Lower Saxony during a period when Göttingen, like most German municipal authorities, maintained the right to issue its own coinage independently of territorial princes. By 1537, that autonomy was already under sustained pressure from the expanding monetary reforms associated with the Reichsmünzordnung — the imperial coinage ordinances that sought to rationalize the bewildering patchwork of local issues across the Holy Roman Empire. At 0.33 grams, this piece sits at the extreme low end of viable silver coinage, and surviving examples rarely escaped heavy wear or clipping.