1 Groschen

Cologne's civic coinage of the 1470s was minted under constant jurisdictional friction between the city council and the Archbishop, who technically held coinage rights over the region. The city had effectively asserted monetary independence decades earlier, and by 1475 was producing groschen on its own authority with little deference to episcopal approval — a situation that periodically erupted into formal legal disputes before the imperial courts.

Noss Co IV#11b is among the more precisely catalogued varieties of this civic series, distinguished from closely related dies by minor heraldic detail.