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1 Sechsling Bernwardgroschen
| Issuer | Hildesheim, City of |
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| Year | 1493-1495 |
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| Value | 1 Sechsling = 1 Körtling (1⁄48) |
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| Obverse description | Within a beaded inner circle, the quartered civic shield of Hildesheim is depicted centrally, with an annelet positioned on three sides of the shield. The surrounding Gothic legend reads the mint and date inscription. The composition is characteristic of late medieval German municipal coinage, with the shield rendered in a simple, flat heraldic style typical of hammered issues of this period. |
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| Reverse description | A frontal half-length effigy of Saint Bernward of Hildesheim, vested in episcopal robes and wearing a mitre, occupies the central field. In his left hand he holds a pastoral staff and in his right a crozier, rendered in the schematic Gothic style characteristic of late 15th-century north German hammered coinage. The saint's face is shown frontally with stylised drapery folds indicated by parallel incised lines. A beaded inner circle encloses the figure, with the abbreviated Latin legend of dedication running in the surrounding margin. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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