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10 Kreuzer

Emittent Augsburg, Free city of
Jahr 1560-1562
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Aversbeschreibung Within a raised inner circle, the municipal arms of Augsburg: the celebrated pine cone device set upon a pedestal base, rendered in high relief with finely detailed scale-like texture. The field surrounding the device is smooth. A circular Latin legend runs along the outer rim, interrupted at the top by the Roman numeral date, reading AVGVSTA VINDELICORVM with the year expressed in Roman numerals (e.g. MDLXI for 1561). The overall style is characteristic of mid-sixteenth-century South German hammered coinage.
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Averslegende AVGVSTA VINDELICORVM MDLXI
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Augsburg's status as a Free Imperial City gave its mint the right to strike silver coinage under Habsburg oversight, but the city exercised considerable latitude in its monetary policy throughout the mid-sixteenth century. This issue falls squarely within the period of the Augsburg settlement's aftermath — the 1555 Peace of Augsburg had just formalized the coexistence of Lutheran and Catholic territories, and the city itself remained confessionally divided, a tension that shaped its civic administration for generations.

The three-year window of production is narrow enough to suggest a specific authorization rather than a standing mint order.