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4 Kreuzers
| Issuer | City of Hagenau (French States) |
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| Year | 1601-1609 |
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| Value | 1 Batzen = 4 Kreuzers (1⁄15) |
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| Obverse description | Central shield bearing the arms of the city of Haguenau — a stylized fleur-de-lis or rose motif on a plain field — enclosed within a beaded inner circle. The encircling legend reads MONETA ARGEN CIVIT HAGENS with the date 1608 positioned prominently above the shield, all within a rope-like outer border. The design is characteristic of late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century German municipal coinage, rendered in the hammered technique with moderate relief. |
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| Obverse lettering | MONETA ARGEN CIVIT HAGENS 1608 (Translation: Silver coinage of the city of Haguenau.) |
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Hagenau (Haguenau) operated as a Free Imperial City within the Alsatian Decapolis, a league of ten cities that jealously guarded their minting privileges against both Habsburg pressure and French encroachment. The 4 Kreuzer denomination was a practical workhorse of small trade in the upper Rhine region, and Hagenau's civic coinage of this period reflects the city's determination to maintain independent monetary authority during a politically unstable stretch that included ongoing confessional tensions preceding the Thirty Years' War.
The E&L reference spread across two numbers — 19 and 24 — indicates at least two distinct die varieties across the emission period, a detail worth tracking given how few examples surface in trade.