1 Mariengroschen

Korbach, a small Hessian town with Hanseatic trading ties, struck municipal coinage in the sixteenth century under rights granted by the Holy Roman Empire — a privilege jealously maintained against encroachment from the Landgraves of Hesse. The Mariengroschen denomination was a north German workhorse unit, widely accepted across multiple principalities and ecclesiastical territories, which made municipal issues like this one genuinely competitive in regional trade.

MB#8 is a scarce type; Korbach's civic mint operated only intermittently, and 1567 falls within a period of documented monetary tension following the Leipzig Münzvertrag of 1566, which attempted to standardize coinage across the Reich.