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24 Mariengroschen
| Issuer | City of Hildesheim |
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| Year | 1674-1721 |
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| Currency | Thaler |
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| Reverse description | Five-line central inscription occupying the field, giving the denomination, date, and mintmaster's initials, all within a plain or lightly decorated border. The text reads in successive lines: 24 / MARIEN / GROSCH / followed by the year of issue and HILDESHEIMISCH / STADT GELDT, identifying the coin as official Hildesheim municipal currency. The layout is typical of North German 2/3 Thaler (Gulden) coinage of the period, with no peripheral legend, the entire textual content confined to the central block inscription. |
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| Mintage | 1674 - - 1680 - - 1681 - - 1683 - - 1684 - - 1685 - - 1686 - - 1687 - - 1688 - - 1689 - - 1690 - - 1691 - - 1692 - - 1693 - - 1694 - - 1694 - - 1695 - - 1696 - - 1697 - - 1698 - - 1699 - - 1700 - - 1701 - - 1702 - - 1702 - 170Z - 1703 - - 1709 - - 1710 - - 1712 - - 1713 - - 1714 - - 1718 - - 1721 - - |
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Hildesheim occupied a peculiar legal position throughout this coin's production run — a Prince-Bishopric whose city government maintained enough autonomous minting rights to issue civic coinage independently of the episcopal authority sitting practically next door. The tension between the city and the bishops had been grinding for decades, punctuated by the Hildesheimer Stiftsfehde of the previous century and its long financial aftermath.
The 24 Mariengroschen denomination was a north German accounting convention, pegged to the evolving Reichstaler system at roughly two-thirds of a full thaler. Davenport's SG#566 placement confirms this as a Speciesthaler-adjacent issue rather than a true thaler, a distinction that mattered considerably to contemporary merchants along the Leine trade routes.