1 Groschen - John George III Sterbegroschen, Death

Mansfeld-Eisleben's mining wealth had long made it one of the more prolific small-state minting authorities in Saxony, but by 1710 the county was deep into the jurisdictional fragmentation that would eventually see it absorbed entirely into Prussian administration. This Sterbegroschen — a death groschen struck to commemorate John George III — belongs to a specifically German funerary numismatic tradition in which memorial coinage served dynastic memory as much as circulation. Whether any of these pieces actually passed through trade is doubtful.