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1 Spruchgroschen - Christoph II
| Issuer | Mansfeld-Schraplau, County of |
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| Year | 1560-1570 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse description | Central field displays the crowned Mansfeld county arms — a quartered shield featuring the characteristic striped and checkered Mansfeld heraldic design — flanked by decorative scrollwork and supported within a beaded inner circle. The shield is surmounted by an ornate crown rendered in relief. The surrounding legend, reading CHRISTOPH•C•E•D•I•MAN•, identifies the issuing count Christoph II of Mansfeld-Schraplau, rendered in Latin capital letters within the outer beaded border. The overall composition is typical of mid-sixteenth-century German hammered groschen coinage. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse depicts a dynamic figure of a mounted knight or wild man riding a rearing animal, rendered in the vigorous, somewhat crude style characteristic of mid-sixteenth-century hammered Saxon coinage. The design is enclosed within a beaded inner border. The surrounding legend bears the pious motto DEVS•VIVIT•ET•IVVAT• — meaning 'God lives and helps' — in Latin capital letters, serving as the Spruch (motto) that gives this denomination its name. The fields show typical die-struck texture consistent with hand-hammered production techniques of the period. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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