Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
1 Groschen - Hermann of Schaumburg
| Issuer | Bishopric of Minden |
|---|---|
| Year | 1577 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Round |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Log in to see details |
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Crowned double-headed imperial eagle displayed, with a rounded orb on the breast bearing the denomination. The eagle's wings are spread and detailed with feather articulation characteristic of late sixteenth-century German coinage. The surrounding circular legend, contained within a beaded border, carries the titles of Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II in Latin abbreviation. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Edge | Log in to see details |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Additional information |
Hermann of Schaumburg served as Bishop of Minden from 1566 until his death in 1582, navigating a diocese that had been deeply fractured by the Reformation — Minden's city council had formally adopted Lutheranism decades earlier, leaving the bishop in an awkward territorial and confessional standoff with his own cathedral city. This groschen was struck well into that unresolved tension.
Stange 132 is the standard reference for Minden episcopal coinage of this period; MB#56 cross-references it within the broader Lower Saxon series.