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.
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.