1 Groschen - Hermann of Schaumburg

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.