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1 Groschen - Frederick III of Beichlingen
| Issuer | Archbishopric of Magdeburg |
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| Year | 1445-1464 |
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| Currency | Thaler |
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| Obverse script | Latin (uncial) |
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| Reverse description | A standing armored figure of the archbishop in full pontifical or episcopal regalia, facing forward, flanked on each side by a heraldic shield and a cross-topped staff. The shields repeat the arms of the archbishopric and the personal arms of Frederick III of Beichlingen. The figure and flanking elements are contained within a beaded inner circle, surrounded by a continuous Gothic uncial legend in the outer field. |
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Frederick III of Beichlingen held the archbishopric from 1445 until his death in 1464, a tenure marked by persistent conflict with the city of Magdeburg over municipal autonomy. The city had long resisted archiepiscopal authority, and coinage rights were themselves a flashpoint — the right to strike groschen was both an economic tool and an assertion of jurisdictional control over the region's trade networks along the Elbe.
Schwinkowski 8 is among the earlier documented groschen attributable to this reign.