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Groschen - Albert of Brandenburg
| Issuer | Halberstadt, Bishopric of |
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| Year | 1514-1526 |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Albert of Brandenburg held Halberstadt as administrator from 1513 while simultaneously serving as Archbishop of Mainz and Archbishop of Magdeburg — a pluralism so flagrant it required a papal dispensation purchased partly through the Fugger banking house. The debt Albert incurred to secure that dispensation was the direct mechanism behind his arrangement with Rome to sell indulgences in his territories, the proceeds split with the papacy. Johann Tetzel operated under Albert's authority. Luther's Ninety-Five Theses were a response to Tetzel's campaign.
Halberstadt coinage from this administration is consequently minted across one of the most consequential decades in Western religious history.