6 Mariengroschen

Hildesheim's civic coinage of the mid-seventeenth century was produced under persistent tension between the city's Protestant council and the surrounding Catholic ecclesiastical territories — the prince-bishopric of Hildesheim had been restored to Catholic control following the Thirty Years' War, leaving the city itself in an awkward jurisdictional position it maintained partly through assertive independent coinage. The 6 Mariengroschen denomination was a regional workhorse, calibrated to the North German silver currency system that dominated Lower Saxony's commercial networks in this period.

BuckBahrf 321f suggests a minor variety distinction within the 1666 civic issues — collectors working this series should cross-reference die alignment and mintmaster marks carefully.