Catalog
1 Groschen - Maximilian II
| Issuer | Hildesheim, City of |
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| Year | 1573 |
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| Currency | Thaler |
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| Obverse description | Central field features the ornately shaped civic arms of Hildesheim enclosed within a beaded inner circle. The shield displays the city's heraldic device surmounted by a decorative crest, rendered in the late Renaissance style typical of German municipal coinage. A circular Latin legend surrounds the shield, reading MONETA. NOVA. CIVI. HILDES., identifying the piece as a new coin of the city of Hildesheim. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Hildesheim's civic coinage of this period emerged from a prolonged struggle between the city and its prince-bishops over municipal autonomy — the city had effectively wrested administrative independence following the Hildesheim Diocesan Feud of 1519, which stripped the bishopric of most of its territorial holdings. By 1573, the city was issuing coin in its own right under imperial authority, with Maximilian II's name lending legitimacy to a mint that the bishop's party never entirely accepted.
MB#27 is among the less frequently encountered die pairings in the Hildesheim civic groschen series for this decade.