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10 Kreuzer

Emittent Augsburg, Free city of
Jahr 1527-1533
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Nennwert 10 Kreuzers (1⁄12)
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Aversbeschreibung Crowned imperial double-headed eagle displayed in the field, with wings spread and heads facing outward in the imperial tradition. The civic arms of Augsburg — a bipartite shield featuring the pine cone device — appear on an escutcheon at the eagle's breast. A encircling Latin legend frames the design, identifying the city as Augusta Vindelicorum, the ancient Roman designation for Augsburg.
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Auflage 1527 - -
1528 - -
1530 - -
1531 - -
1533 - -
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Augsburg's status as a Free Imperial City gave it the right to strike its own coinage, a privilege jealously guarded and periodically contested by neighboring territories. The years 1527–1533 fall squarely within the period when Augsburg was absorbing the full shock of the Reformation — the city formally adopted Lutheranism in 1537, but the theological rupture was already fracturing civic institutions well before that date, and the merchant banking dynasties of the Fuggers and Welsers were navigating confessional politics with the same precision they applied to Habsburgs loans.

The Forster and Vetterle references place this piece within a well-documented but genuinely scarce series of southern German municipal silver.