1 Groschen

Marsberg — known in this period as Stadtberge — was a double city on the Diemel River in Westphalia, its upper and lower halves only formally unified in 1664. The right to strike small silver coinage was a jealously guarded civic privilege, and this groschen belongs to a run issued across roughly a decade when the city was navigating the fractious politics of the County of Waldeck and the Prince-Bishopric of Paderborn, both pressing claims over local administration. Municipal issues of this scale and region were frequently underweight against imperial standards almost from inception.