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1 Mariengroschen - Ernest I, Botho and Caspar Ulrich
| Issuer | County of Regenstein |
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| Year | 1563-1564 |
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| Value | 1 Mariengroschen (1⁄36) |
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| Obverse description | Central shield bearing the arms of Regenstein, surmounted by a crowned helmet with elaborate mantling extending to either side, all within a beaded inner circle. The surrounding legend in Latin reads ERNST. BOT. - CASPER. VLR., referencing the three co-ruling counts Ernest I, Botho, and Caspar Ulrich. The coin is struck by hammer on an irregular flan with characteristic uneven edges. The heraldic composition is rendered in the Germanic Renaissance style typical of mid-sixteenth-century minor German territorial coinage. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Central device depicting the enthroned Virgin Mary with the Christ Child, both crowned, in a frontal devotional composition consistent with the Mariengroschen type widely circulated in northern Germany during the sixteenth century. The figures are set within a beaded inner circle, with the surrounding Latin legend MARIA. MAT. - RIP S STRV. referencing the Virgin as Mother and the territorial or mint attribution. The reverse design follows the established iconographic tradition of the Mariengroschen denomination, with the sacred imagery rendered in a simplified but recognizable hammered style. |
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