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12 Grote
| Issuer | Free Hanseatic City of Bremen |
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| Year | 1840-1846 |
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| Diameter | 23 mm |
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| Reverse description | The denomination 12 GROTE is inscribed in two lines at centre, with the date below and the fineness notation 11 L. 15 G. (indicating 11 Lot 15 Grain silver fineness) beneath. The entire central inscription is enclosed within a wreath of oak branches tied at the base, rendered in fine relief. The design is contained within a beaded border, with the open field framing the legend cleanly in the neoclassical style typical of mid-19th century German states coinage. |
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| Mintage | 1840 - - 193,000 1841 - - 112,000 1845 - - 63,000 1846 - - 56,000 |
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Bremen's 12 Grote occupied an awkward position in the German monetary patchwork of the 1840s, a locally-rooted denomination resisting the push toward Prussian-influenced standardization that would eventually consume most northern German monetary systems. The Grote itself was a north German accounting unit with medieval origins, and Bremen clung to it well past the point where neighboring states had rationalized their coinages.
The timing matters: these were struck in the years immediately preceding the revolutions of 1848, when pressure on the German city-states to confederate — monetarily and politically — was intensifying sharply.