Jobst Edmund of Brabeck governed Hildesheim from 1688 until his death in 1702, presiding over a diocese still recovering from the Thirty Years' War's long economic disruption and the subsequent debasement cycles that plagued north German silver coinage through much of the seventeenth century. The 24 Mariengroschen denomination — a north German convention equating to two-thirds of a Reichstaler — was a pragmatic response to regional trade demands rather than imperial monetary policy.
Brabeck maintained close ties with the Habsburgs and worked to restore Hildesheim's ecclesiastical properties seized during the Reformation, a political project that made stable, credible coinage something of an ideological statement. The Dav SG#562 attribution places this firmly within the broader Hildesheim series documented by Davenport.
Jobst Edmund of Brabeck governed Hildesheim from 1688 until his death in 1702, presiding over a diocese still recovering from the Thirty Years' War's long economic disruption and the subsequent debasement cycles that plagued north German silver coinage through much of the seventeenth century. The 24 Mariengroschen denomination — a north German convention equating to two-thirds of a Reichstaler — was a pragmatic response to regional trade demands rather than imperial monetary policy.
Brabeck maintained close ties with the Habsburgs and worked to restore Hildesheim's ecclesiastical properties seized during the Reformation, a political project that made stable, credible coinage something of an ideological statement. The Dav SG#562 attribution places this firmly within the broader Hildesheim series documented by Davenport.