1 Mariengroschen - Ulrich VI

Regenstein was a small rocky outcrop of a county in the Harz mountains, and by the mid-sixteenth century the Counts were in chronic financial difficulty — the territory was mortgaged, contested, and ultimately absorbed into Brandenburg-Prussia by 1599. Ulrich VI ruled during what amounted to the final coherent phase of independent coinage from the county. The Mariengroschen denomination itself was a north German workhorse coin, its name derived from the Virgin Mary imagery standardized across the region following currency reforms of the late fifteenth century.

Schultze 2886 is among the scarcer attributable issues from this mint, which operated intermittently rather than continuously through this period.