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1 Mariengroschen - William VI
| Issuer | Landgraviate of Hesse-Cassel |
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| Year | 1656-1657 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Reverse description | The reverse displays a four-line inscription within a plain inner circle, reading I / MARI / GRO / 36, denoting the denomination of 1 Mariengroschen valued at 1/36 of a Thaler. The surrounding legend within the outer ring reads SCHAVENB. LANDT MUNTZ., identifying the coin as Schaumburg-Hesse territorial currency. Small rosette or star ornaments separate words in the legend. The date appears at the base of the central inscription field. The overall layout is functional and typical of small-denomination German silver coinage of the period. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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William VI ruled Hesse-Cassel during the immediate aftermath of the Thirty Years' War, a period when the landgraviate's finances were severely strained by decades of military occupation, requisitioning, and population loss. The Mariengroschen — a north German denomination named for the Virgin Mary — had circulated across the region since the late medieval period, and its continued production under William signals an effort to restore normalcy to local commerce in a territory still recovering from catastrophic disruption. William died in 1663 at just 35, leaving a young heir, which meant this short-lived issue captures one of the more turbulent interregnums in Hessian monetary history.