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1 Groschen
| Issuer | Marsberg, City of |
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| Year | 1616-1617 |
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| Value | 1 Groschen = 1⁄24 Thaler |
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| Obverse description | Within a beaded inner circle, a two-towered city gate is depicted with an upright key at centre flanked by the letters A, symbolising the city of Marsberg. A small shield bearing the cross of Cologne is placed above the gate. The circular legend reads MONETA NOVA CIVITATIS MONTIS MARTINI in abbreviated Latin, running along the outer border. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Marsberg — known in the seventeenth century as Stadtberge — was a small Westphalian double-town whose civic coinage rights were perpetually contested by the Prince-Bishops of Paderborn. This groschen was struck during that friction, at a moment when municipal authorities were asserting independent minting activity that the Bishopric viewed with considerable hostility. The arrangement did not last; Paderborn's ecclesiastical control over the region's monetary affairs was effectively reasserted within a generation.