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1 Prague Groschen Counterstamped
| Issuer | Isny, City of |
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| Year | 1378-1419 |
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| Reference(s) | Krusy#I3,5 |
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| Reverse description | The reverse of the host Prague Groschen displays the remnants of the typical Bohemian double-tailed lion in the central field, though the design is largely effaced and distorted by wear and the application of the counterstamp visible as a depression or raised mark in the central area. Surrounding the field, traces of the characteristic Gothic Latin uncial legend of the Prague Groschen series are discernible around the rim, though largely illegible due to extensive circulation wear and the irregular flan edges. The surface is heavily patinated with a dark silver-grey tone consistent with long circulation and burial. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Isny, a small imperial city in what is now Baden-Württemberg, lacked minting rights for original coinage but exercised the practical authority to validate foreign silver in local circulation. Counterstamping incoming Prague Groschen — the dominant trade coin of Bohemia under the later Luxembourg rulers — was a municipal declaration that the piece had been inspected and accepted at a set local value. The Krusy I3,5 attribution places this practice within a documented but sparsely surviving group.
Prague Groschen of this period were struck under Wenceslaus IV, whose reign saw repeated monetary debasements that made official validation by receiving cities commercially necessary.