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12 Mariengroschen
| Issuer | Goslar, City of |
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| Year | 1739 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse lettering | IMPERIAL GOSLAR MONET NOV CIVIT |
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| Reverse lettering | NACH DEM LEIPZIGER FVS . 1739 *XII* MARIEN GROSCH : H.C.R.F. |
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Goslar's coinage rights derived from its status as an Imperial Free City, a privilege fiercely defended across centuries of encroachment by the Dukes of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, who coveted both the city and its proximity to the silver-rich Rammelsberg mines. By 1739, those mines — worked continuously since at least the tenth century — were in serious decline, and the city's fiscal position had deteriorated accordingly. The Mariengroschen denomination itself was a north German convention, its name referencing the Virgin Mary and rooted in late medieval Hanover-area monetary tradition.