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1 Groschen - Philip Sigismund of Brunswick Wolfenbüttel
| Issuer | Bishopric of Verden |
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| Year | 1618-1619 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Imperial orb displaying the fraction numeral 24, denoting the coin's value as one twenty-fourth of a Thaler, set within a double beaded inner circle. The two-digit date is divided at the top of the orb, with the first two digits placed to the left and the last two to the right of the cross surmounting the orb. The surrounding field contains the Latin legend referencing Emperor Matthias, reading ·18·MATT·I·D·G·R·I·M·S·A6·, an abbreviated titulature for Matthias, by the Grace of God, Holy Roman Emperor. The design conforms to the standard Kipper und Wipper-era Groschen type issued by numerous German ecclesiastical and secular mints. |
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Philip Sigismund held the Bishopric of Verden as a Protestant administrator — one of several ecclesiastical territories in northern Germany where Lutheran princes quietly displaced Catholic authority while technically maintaining the forms of church governance. His tenure ended with his death in 1623, and Verden itself would be fought over repeatedly during the Thirty Years' War, eventually passing to Sweden under the Peace of Westphalia. This groschen dates to the war's opening years, when Imperial and Protestant forces were still maneuvering before the large-scale devastation that would hollow out the region's population and economy entirely.