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1 Mariengroschen
| Issuer | Göttingen, City of |
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| Year | 1658-1660 |
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| Value | 1 Mariengroschen (1⁄36) |
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| Obverse description | Within a beaded inner circle, a crowned Gothic letter 'G' occupies the central field, serving as the city initial of Göttingen. The surrounding legend, rendered in Latin script, incorporates the date of issue. The crown above the 'G' is depicted in a simple heraldic style typical of seventeenth-century German municipal coinage. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Göttingen's civic coinage of the late 1650s was minted under pressure from the broader monetary chaos following the Thirty Years' War, during which Germany's fragmented coinage system had been flooded with debased Kipper- und Wipperzeit issues. The city retained the right to strike its own silver in part because the Hanoverian dukes had not yet consolidated enough regional authority to absorb municipal minting privileges — that absorption came within a generation.
Schrock's attribution distinguishes the 176a variety from closely related dies, a distinction that matters for provenance more than for grade.