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Groschen
| Issuer | Bishopric of Halberstadt |
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| Year | 1616-1619 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#10 |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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The Bishopric of Halberstadt spent much of the early seventeenth century in confessional deadlock — Protestant administrators appointed by the Cathedral Chapter clashing with Catholic claimants backed by the Emperor. The years 1616–1619 fall squarely in this contested interregnum, bracketed by the administration of Christian Wilhelm of Brandenburg, whose tenure was itself a prolonged jurisdictional argument with Rome. Coins struck under such conditions often reflect institutional uncertainty in their execution.
KM#10 is among the less-documented issues from this mint, and Halberstadt's output was absorbed into larger regional circulation networks before the Thirty Years' War disrupted the entire Saxon minting system after 1618.