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Groschen - Albert of Brandenburg Breitgroschen
| Issuer | Halberstadt, Bishopric of |
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| Year | 1522 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Full-length armored figure of Saint Stephen facing left, depicted in a frontal stance wearing plate armor and holding a long spear bearing a pennant flag in the right hand, with a shield displaying heraldic arms at the left side. The saint is presented in a robust late Gothic style with a nimbus visible around the head. A circular Latin legend surrounds the figure within a beaded inner border, with the name SANCTI MA[GNUS or similar] partially legible. |
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Albert of Brandenburg held the Archbishopric of Mainz, the Archbishopric of Magdeburg, and the Bishopric of Halberstadt simultaneously — a concentration of ecclesiastical power that required papal dispensation and an enormous bribe to Rome, financed partly through the sale of indulgences in his territories. It was specifically this arrangement that provoked Martin Luther to publish his Ninety-Five Theses in 1517, making Albert an unwitting catalyst of the Reformation. This coin was struck just five years later, when that rupture was already irreversible.