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1 Groschen - Albert of Hohenzollern
| Issuer | Teutonic Order |
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| Year | 1520-1521 |
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| Reverse description | The shield of the Grand Master of the Teutonic Order occupies the central field, featuring the characteristic cross and heraldic devices associated with the office. Two pellets are positioned above the shield as decorative or privy elements. The date is rendered in the margin, and a Latin circular legend surrounds the central device, all executed in the hammered style typical of early sixteenth-century Prussian coinage. |
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| Mintage | 1520 - 15z0 - 1521 - 15z1 - |
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Albert of Hohenzollern was Grand Master of the Teutonic Order when he struck this issue, but the political ground was already shifting beneath the Order's feet. In 1525 — just a few years after this coin left the mint — Albert converted to Lutheranism, dissolved the Prussian branch of the Order entirely, and transformed its territories into the secular Duchy of Prussia under Polish suzerainty. This groschen was struck, in effect, on the eve of the Order's extinction as a governing power in the Baltic.