The Zinsgroschen — literally "interest groschen" or "tribute groschen" — takes its name from the biblical denarius of Matthew 22, the coin held up to Christ when asked about taxation. Saxon electors leaned into that association deliberately, using the type to project both pious legitimacy and fiscal authority during a period when Luther's challenge to Rome was making every princely claim to revenue politically charged. This issue spans the joint rule of the Albertinian brothers and their successor George, a dynastic arrangement that required all three names on the coinage simultaneously.
Keilitz 56 is known with minor die variations in the arrangement of the electoral titles.
The Zinsgroschen — literally "interest groschen" or "tribute groschen" — takes its name from the biblical denarius of Matthew 22, the coin held up to Christ when asked about taxation. Saxon electors leaned into that association deliberately, using the type to project both pious legitimacy and fiscal authority during a period when Luther's challenge to Rome was making every princely claim to revenue politically charged. This issue spans the joint rule of the Albertinian brothers and their successor George, a dynastic arrangement that required all three names on the coinage simultaneously.
Keilitz 56 is known with minor die variations in the arrangement of the electoral titles.