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1 Groten Gold Pattern
| Issuer | Bremen, City of |
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| Year | 1840 |
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| Weight | 1.14 g |
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| Obverse description | Central shield bearing the arms of Bremen — two crossed keys on a vertically lined field — surmounted by a royal crown with three visible points and foliate decoration. The arms are rendered in fine relief within a plain-edged shield. The circular legend FREIE HANSESTADT BREMEN runs around the periphery, and the entire design is bordered by a continuous beaded inner rim. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Bremen's 1840 gold pattern for the 1 Groten was part of a broader effort by German city-states to rationalize their coinage ahead of what would eventually become the monetary unification of the North German Confederation and, later, the Reich. Bremen clung to its Groten-based system longer than most peers, and this piece appears to document an exploratory proposal that never reached circulation — the working relationship between local monetary autonomy and the pressures of mid-century German economic integration left many such patterns as the only physical record of a road not taken.