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1 Mariengroschen - Frederick William Leopold
| Issuer | County of Lippe |
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| Year | 1789 |
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| Engraver(s) | Balthasar Reinhard |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Lippe's coinage in the late eighteenth century operated under the peculiar circumstances of a tiny imperial county still exercising minting rights that larger German states were quietly surrendering or consolidating. The Mariengroschen was a denominational holdover from much earlier north German monetary tradition, kept in circulation well past its economic relevance largely because the local peasantry trusted familiar coin names over Enlightenment-era monetary reforms.
Frederick William Leopold ruled Lippe from 1782 until his death in 1800, a period during which the county's mint output was modest and administrative rather than ambitious.