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1 Mariengroschen
| Issuer | Brunswick, City of |
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| Year | 1510-1514 |
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| Currency | Thaler |
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| Reverse description | Within a beaded inner circle, the crowned Virgin Mary standing facing, holding the Christ Child before her, both figures rendered in Gothic style with flowing robes. Stylized flames or rays emanate from around the figures, referencing the Marian devotional image type. The composition is enclosed by a raised linear border, with the circumferential legend distributed in Gothic lettering between the inner and outer beaded borders. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Brunswick's civic coinage of the early sixteenth century emerged from the city's long struggle to assert financial independence from the surrounding ducal territories. The Mariengroschen denomination — named for the Virgin Mary — was a regional accounting unit that had circulated across Lower Saxony since the mid-fifteenth century, and Brunswick's municipal mint struck its own issues partly to reduce dependence on Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel ducal coin. The four-year span of this type likely reflects a single authorization period under the city council rather than continuous minting throughout.