1 Groschen

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.