1 Groschen Counterstamped

Brunswick's civic coinage of the mid-fifteenth century was issued under the authority of the city council rather than the surrounding duchy, reflecting a period when the Hanseatic town maintained meaningful administrative independence from the Welfen dukes. The counterstamp practice documented here was a common mechanism for revalidating older groschen within a specific monetary zone, effectively certifying foreign or worn pieces as acceptable tender without the expense of reminting.

The Kruse and Leschhorn references place this firmly within the regional bracteate and groschen literature specific to Lower Saxony.