Catalog
1 Groschen
| Issuer | Göttingen, City of |
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| Year | 1610-1620 |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Obverse description | Central Gothic letter G displayed within an oval cartouche surmounted by an ornate crown, the whole set within a beaded inner circle. A stylized fleur-de-lis or foliate ornament appears within the G. The surrounding circular legend reads MO. NO. GOTTINGENSIS., denoting the new coinage of Göttingen, and is separated from the inner device by a beaded border. The flan is irregular and slightly ragged at the edges, characteristic of hammered production of the early seventeenth century. |
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| Reverse description | Imperial orb — a globus cruciger surmounted by a cross pattée and flanked by small rosettes — displayed at center, with the numeral 24 inscribed within the lower hemisphere to denote the coin's value of one twenty-fourth of a Thaler. The date appears divided in the upper field to either side of the orb's cross. The surrounding legend MATTHIAS. ROM. IM. S. identifies the Holy Roman Emperor Matthias as the issuing authority, separated from the central device by a beaded border. The reverse displays the typical style of early seventeenth-century German municipal groschen coinage. |
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Göttingen's municipal coinage of this period was produced under the city's retained minting rights — a privilege increasingly contested by the Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg throughout the early seventeenth century. The Thirty Years' War, which erupted in 1618 and drew Lower Saxony into its orbit within a decade, created chronic silver shortages that effectively ended most independent civic minting in the region. A piece struck anywhere in this decade sits at the edge of that collapse.