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1 Groschen - John Ernest
| Issuer | Regenstein, County of |
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| Year | 1598-1599 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse lettering | IOHAN. ERN. C. I(N). REIN(S). E. B. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Regenstein was a small, financially strained county in the Harz region whose counts spent much of the late sixteenth century in debt disputes with their neighbors and the Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel duchy. John Ernest — Johann Ernst — issued this groschen during a two-year window that coincided with protracted negotiations over the county's territorial obligations. The county was absorbed into Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel by 1670, making all Regenstein coinage terminal issues of a vanishing entity.
The Schröter-Denicke reference places this among a small cluster of types struck in quick succession, suggesting a single short minting episode rather than sustained production.