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1 Groschen - Theodore of Fürstenberg
| Issuer | Bishopric of Paderborn |
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| Year | 1612-1614 |
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| Value | 1 Groschen = 1⁄24 Thaler |
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| Obverse description | Central field occupied by an oval baroque cartouche bearing a four-fold quartered shield combining the arms of Paderborn (horizontal bars) and Fürstenberg, enclosed within an ornate foliate frame. The circumferential Latin legend reading THEO. A. FURS. D.G. E. P. E. runs around the periphery, identifying the issuing prince-bishop Theodore of Fürstenberg. The overall style is characteristic of early seventeenth-century German ecclesiastical coinage, with robust relief typical of hammered production. |
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| Obverse lettering | THEO. A. FURS. (D.G.) E. P. (E.). |
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Theodore von Fürstenberg's tenure as Prince-Bishop of Paderborn was defined largely by the aggressive reimplementation of Catholicism in a diocese badly fractured by decades of Protestant encroachment — a project that required both political maneuvering and functioning local coinage. Small silver issues like this groschen circulated alongside the broader currency chaos of the pre-Kipper era, just years before the catastrophic debasement wave of 1619–1622 would render much of the Empire's petty coinage worthless. Fürstenberg died in 1618, sparing him the worst of it.