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2 Grote
| Issuer | Bremen, City of |
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| Year | 1709 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A displayed double-headed eagle fills the reverse field, its wings spread and heads facing outward in the imperial heraldic tradition of the Holy Roman Empire. At the center of the eagle's breast is a circle enclosing the numeral 36, denoting the coin's denomination as the 1/36 Thaler. The city name BREMEN and the date 1709 appear in the surrounding legend, asserting the civic authority of the issuing municipality within the imperial monetary framework. |
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Bremen's civic coinage operated with unusual independence well into the eighteenth century, the city's Senate jealously guarding its mint rights against both imperial pressure and the encroachments of neighboring Hanover. The 2 Grote denomination was a practical workhorse of local exchange, the Grote itself being a north German unit with roots in the medieval groschen tradition — the name a Low German corruption of the same.
KM#161 is associated with the magistrate-supervised output of Bremen's mint during a period when the city was navigating the commercial disruptions of the Great Northern War playing out across the Baltic trading networks on which its merchant class depended.