1 Mariengroschen

Hannover achieved the right to mint its own coinage only after prolonged negotiation with the Welfen dukes, and the Mariengroschen issues of the 1530s reflect the city's brief window of municipal minting authority before that privilege was progressively curtailed. The denomination itself was a Lower Saxon standard, valued at 1/36 of a Thaler, widely used across the Weser-Leine region for small commerce.

MB#5 is among the scarcer civic issues from this short two-year run.