1 Groschen

Hildesheim's civic coinage of the late sixteenth century emerged from a prolonged jurisdictional struggle between the city's merchant-governed council and the prince-bishops who nominally controlled the surrounding territory. By the 1580s the city had effectively asserted administrative independence in monetary matters, issuing groschen on its own authority rather than deferring to episcopal sanction. The Buck Ei#74 reference places this piece within a tightly documented local sequence, one of the more precisely catalogued civic series from Lower Saxony.