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10 Kreuzer
| Issuer | Regensburg, Free city of |
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| Year | 1527-1532 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Central field occupied by the quartered civic arms of Regensburg displayed on a shield, featuring the crossed keys of St. Peter, the whole flanked and surmounted by stylized floral and foliate ornaments. The date 1529 is divided and placed above the shield within the decorative surround. A beaded inner border separates the central device from the encircling Latin legend in the outer ring. |
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| Obverse lettering | MONE: NOVA: CIVITATIS: RATISPON(E). 1529 |
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Regensburg's right to strike silver coinage of this denomination in the late 1520s was entangled with the broader contest between imperial free cities and the Habsburgs over minting privileges — a friction that intensified precisely as Charles V was consolidating control over the imperial monetary system. The city had been a mint site since the Carolingian period, but issues of this type reflect a moment when civic minting authority was actively contested rather than simply exercised.
The five-year span of this issue corresponds almost exactly with the early Reformation turbulence in Regensburg, where the city council was navigating confessional pressure while trying to maintain commercial relationships in both Catholic and Protestant trading networks.