1 Groschen

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.