1 Groschen - Ernest of Sachsen

Ernest of Wettin held the Archbishopric of Magdeburg from 1476 to 1513 — an unusually long tenure that coincided with sustained conflict between the archbishops and the city of Magdeburg itself, which repeatedly asserted its independence as a free imperial city. The groschen coinage of this period served the dense commercial traffic along the Elbe corridor, where Magdeburg functioned as a critical transit point for Saxon and Brandenburg trade.

Schröter 33 is the standard attribution for this type, though die variation across a 37-year minting span is considerable.