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1 Groten
| Issuer | Bremen, City of |
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| Year | 1543-1551 |
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| Reference(s) | MB#8, Jungk#891, Jungk#887 |
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| Reverse lettering | .CAROLVS•V•ROMA•IMPE•SEM•AVGV |
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| Mintage | 1543 - - 1544 - - 1546 - - 1547 - - 1551 a - ⋆CAROLVS•V•ROMA•IMPE•SEM•AVGV - 1551 b - .CAROLVS•V•ROMA•IMPE•SEM•AVG - |
| Additional information |
Bremen's civic coinage of the 1540s was struck during a period of acute political tension between the city and the Archbishop of Bremen, whose claims over the municipality had been a source of conflict for generations. By the Reformation decade, Bremen had firmly aligned with Lutheranism, and the independent minting of silver grotens was as much a declaration of civic autonomy as a practical necessity. The Archbishop's temporal authority was effectively finished.
The Jungk double-reference here — #887 and #891 — suggests die variation across the emission period, not a cataloging error.