1 Mariengroschen

Goslar's civic coinage authority survived well into the eighteenth century largely because of the city's historic ties to the imperial silver mines at Rammelsberg, which had been worked continuously since the tenth century and gave the town both the metal and the political justification to strike its own issues long after comparable free cities had lost minting rights. The Mariengroschen denomination itself was a north German convention, its name derived from the Virgin Mary's image that had graced earlier regional types.

The 24-year span of this issue across KM#88 masks what BBK#349b narrows to a specific die variety — collectors working this series should treat the two references as complementary rather than redundant.