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1 Mariengroschen Counterstamp
| Issuer | City of Hildesheim |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Hildesheim's municipal counterstamp program was a direct response to chronic small-change shortages that plagued German city-states throughout the seventeenth century, when imperial coinage policy failed to guarantee adequate supplies of low-denomination silver. Rather than strike new coin from scratch — an expensive undertaking requiring imperial authorization — civic authorities simply overstamped existing groschen circulating within city limits, reassigning them a local tariff value and bringing them under municipal monetary control.
The specific host coins accepted for counterstamping varied considerably, which is why documented examples differ in underlying type.