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1 Groschen Tournois
| Issuer | Frankfurt, Free imperial city of |
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| Year | 1522-1525 |
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| Value | 1 Groschen (1⁄24) |
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| Obverse script | Latin (uncial) |
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| Reverse lettering | + TVRONVS FRANCFVRT + SIT NOME DNI DEI NOSTRI BENEDICTV(M) |
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Frankfurt's groschen tournois issues of the early 1520s were struck at a moment when the city was navigating intense pressure from the ongoing debate over monetary reform within the Holy Roman Empire — the same years that produced the Reichsmünzordnung negotiations that would eventually culminate in the 1524 Esslingen ordinance. As a free imperial city, Frankfurt retained minting rights but was increasingly squeezed between imperial standardization efforts and the practical demands of Rhenish trade networks that still ran on the French-derived tournois system.
The tournois denomination itself was a foreign import that had penetrated German commercial practice through the Rhine valley trade routes, making Frankfurt's adoption of it a commercial decision as much as a monetary one.