1 Groten

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.