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15 Kreuzer
| Issuer | Free city of Augsburg (German States) |
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| Year | 1622 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#12.1 |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Three-line inscription in the field reading XV / STADT / MINTZ, indicating the denomination of 15 Kreuzer and identifying the coin as a city mintage (Stadtmünze) of Augsburg. The lettering is rendered in a plain, unadorned Roman style within a plain circular border, consistent with emergency coinage of the Kipper period. |
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Augsburg's 15 Kreuzer issues of 1622 belong to the chaotic flood of Kipper und Wipperzeit coinage — a speculative debasement crisis that swept the Holy Roman Empire between roughly 1619 and 1623, during which mints across German states raced to produce overvalued small silver at reduced fineness, pocketing the difference. Augsburg, as a wealthy imperial free city with its own mint rights, was not immune. The KM#12.1 variety distinguishes this issue from the city's concurrent 15 Kreuzer production, suggesting parallel die usage during a period of intense and often poorly controlled output.