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1 Groschen - Bruno II, William I, John George IV, Volrat VI and Jobst II
| Issuer | Mansfeld-Bornstedt, County of |
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| Year | 1610-1611 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | 1610 - - 1610 GM - - 1611 GM - - |
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The Mansfeld counties present one of the most administratively tangled coinages in the Holy Roman Empire — multiple ruling lines sharing sovereignty over the same territory simultaneously, each with a legal claim to appear on the coinage. By 1610, the Bornstedt line was already in financial distress, a condition endemic to the Mansfeld counts whose copper mining operations had been in managed decline for decades. Joint-reign issues like this one required formal agreement among all co-rulers before a die could be cut, making the production window — here just two years — characteristically narrow.