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1 Groschen
| Issuer | Stralsund, City of |
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| Year | 1610-1614 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | The city arms of Stralsund depicted within a beaded inner circle, showing two crossed keys — the traditional civic emblem of the city. The design is rendered in the angular, late-medieval hammered style typical of early seventeenth-century German municipal coinage. A Latin legend encircles the field outside the beaded border, reading the mint attribution and date year. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Stralsund spent much of the early seventeenth century navigating the fractious politics of the southern Baltic coast, nominally under Swedish influence but fiercely protective of its municipal privileges as a Hanseatic city. This groschen was struck in the years immediately preceding the Thirty Years' War, a conflict that would bring Swedish troops directly into Stralsund and eventually make the city a Swedish imperial possession by 1648. The mint operated under city authority during this window precisely because that authority was still intact — a condition that would not survive the century unchanged.