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1 Guldengroschen - George and Albert II
| Issuer | Brandenburg-Franconia |
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| Year | 1537-1538 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Two half-length figures of the margraves George and Albert II facing one another in the field, each clad in period dress with arms or regalia visible. The date appears below the figures. The surrounding legend in Latin records the titles of both margraves. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Brandenburg-Franconia's joint coinage under George the Pious and Albert Alcibiades reflects an increasingly tense co-rulership — George was a committed Lutheran convert who had introduced the Reformation into his territories by 1528, while the younger Albert would later become one of the most destructive military opportunists of the sixteenth century, ravaging the Franconian countryside during the Second Margrave War of 1552–54. That this guldengroschens was struck during a period of nominal cooperation between them makes it something of an anomaly in the broader arc of both men's careers.
The Davenport SG#8965 attribution places it firmly in the joint-issue sequence that ended with George's death in 1543.