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1 Groschen
| Issuer | Halberstadt, City of |
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| Year | 1519-1549 |
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| Value | 1 Groschen (1/4) |
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| Obverse lettering | GROSSVS. NOVVS. HALBE |
| Reverse description | Full-length frontal figure of St. Stephen, patron saint of Halberstadt Cathedral, standing in robes and holding the attributes of his martyrdom, set within a beaded inner circle. The saint is depicted in a stylized late-Gothic manner with drapery falling to the base of the coin. A circular Latin legend surrounds the figure in the outer field, with decorative stops separating the words. |
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Halberstadt operated as an episcopal city under the Prince-Bishops of the Halberstadt diocese, but the city itself maintained municipal coining rights that periodically put it in tension with episcopal authority. This groschen was struck across three decades during which the Reformation fractured the region — the diocese resisted Lutheranism while the citizenry increasingly did not, a conflict that would eventually strip the Prince-Bishops of effective political control by mid-century.
The thirty-year span of this type suggests a conservative municipal mint unwilling or unable to update its dies frequently.