Göttingen's Körtling was a small regional silver denomination struck under municipal authority during a period when German cities jealously guarded their minting rights against encroachment by territorial princes. The city's production of this type spans more than five decades, suggesting sustained demand from local trade rather than a single political occasion. Exact annual mintage records for municipal issues of this class are rarely preserved.
Schrock's numbering places this piece early in the Göttingen sequence, consistent with emissions predating the city's eventual submission to Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel pressure in the later sixteenth century.
Göttingen's Körtling was a small regional silver denomination struck under municipal authority during a period when German cities jealously guarded their minting rights against encroachment by territorial princes. The city's production of this type spans more than five decades, suggesting sustained demand from local trade rather than a single political occasion. Exact annual mintage records for municipal issues of this class are rarely preserved.
Schrock's numbering places this piece early in the Göttingen sequence, consistent with emissions predating the city's eventual submission to Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel pressure in the later sixteenth century.