1 Groschen

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.