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1 Prague Groschen Counterstamped
| Issuer | Nördlingen, City of |
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| Year | 1378-1419 |
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| Value | 1 Groschen |
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| Obverse script | Latin (uncial) |
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| Mintage | ND (1378-1419) |
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Nördlingen, like many Free Imperial Cities in the late 14th century, faced chronic shortages of reliable small silver coinage. Rather than strike new coin, the city resorted to counterstamping circulating Prague Groschen — the dominant trade silver of Central Europe at the time — to authorize their use within municipal commerce and presumably assert some control over exchange rates. The Krusy reference places this practice squarely within a documented group of German civic counterstamps on Bohemian groschen.
The forty-year window of 1378–1419 spans the death of Charles IV and the outbreak of the Hussite Wars, a period of significant disruption to Bohemian minting output.