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1 Mariengroschen - Ernest I and Botho
| Issuer | Regenstein, County of |
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| Year | 1552 |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Reverse description | Standing figure of the Virgin Mary facing front, crowned and robed, holding a long scepter in one hand and the Christ Child in the other, with stylized flames or rays emanating around her form. A circular Latin legend surrounds the effigy, consistent with the Mariengroschen type common to the mid-sixteenth century northern German states. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Regenstein was a small, perpetually debt-ridden county wedged into the Harz Mountains, and by 1552 its ruling house was already in a terminal financial slide that would end with the territory absorbed by Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel before the century was out. Ernest I and Botho ruled as co-counts — a joint administration common in fragmented German territories where inheritance customs resisted clean partition. Their coinage is scarce precisely because the county's minting activity was intermittent and low-volume, dependent on whatever silver could be sourced locally from the Harz mining economy.
Schroetter/Deniece 107a distinguishes this variety within what is already a thinly documented series.