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1 Groten
| Issuer | Bremen, City of |
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| Year | 1623-1627 |
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| Weight | 0.7 g |
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| Reverse description | Central field displays a spread Imperial eagle, the heraldic emblem of the Holy Roman Empire, with wings displayed and details rendered in the bold, somewhat crude style typical of hammered small coinage of the period. The eagle fills the inner beaded circle, with the surrounding legend invoking the Imperial authority of Ferdinand II. Decorative stops separate the abbreviated words of the legend around the circumference. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Bremen struck these small silver Groten throughout the early years of the Thirty Years' War, a period when the city's status as a Free Imperial City made it a target of competing imperial and Danish ambitions. The nearby conflict disrupted trade along the Weser, placing real pressure on the municipal treasury to maintain a reliable small-denomination currency for local commerce.
KM#78 encompasses several die variants across the four-year span, as Bremen's mint worked with multiple engravers during this period of intermittent wartime disruption.