The Bishopric of Hildesheim spent much of the Seven Years' War (1756–1763) in an acutely difficult position — Hanoverian and Prussian forces repeatedly moved through its territory, and the local economy bore the strain of military requisitioning and debased emergency coinage circulating throughout the region. This 2 Mariengroschen, struck in the war's final year under Friedrich Wilhelm von Westphalen, belongs to a period when the bishopric was scrambling to reassert fiscal normalcy before the Peace of Hubertusburg formally ended hostilities in February 1763.
The Mariengroschen was a denomination with deep roots in Lower Saxon ecclesiastical coinage, named for the Virgin and long associated with northern German church territories.
The Bishopric of Hildesheim spent much of the Seven Years' War (1756–1763) in an acutely difficult position — Hanoverian and Prussian forces repeatedly moved through its territory, and the local economy bore the strain of military requisitioning and debased emergency coinage circulating throughout the region. This 2 Mariengroschen, struck in the war's final year under Friedrich Wilhelm von Westphalen, belongs to a period when the bishopric was scrambling to reassert fiscal normalcy before the Peace of Hubertusburg formally ended hostilities in February 1763.
The Mariengroschen was a denomination with deep roots in Lower Saxon ecclesiastical coinage, named for the Virgin and long associated with northern German church territories.