Issuing authority
City of Minden
The city of Minden was an imperial and Hanseatic city in Westphalia that issued emergency and municipal coinage.
- Kind
- city-state
- Region
- Western Europe, Europe
- Recorded period
- to 1648
Objects are filed under the historical authority that actually issued or made them. A recorded period comes from the issuer's own reference description and is left blank where no source states it.
Published entries
2
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Catalogue entries (2)
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Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
modern coins
Eight Mariengroschen, emergency coin from Minden, struck during the siege by Duke George of Brunswick-Lüneburg
1634
Eight groschen. Rectangular emergency coin. Obverse: within a circular punch: inscription. Reverse: within a circular punch: inscription; to the left: countermark: city coat of arms: two crossed keys blank. The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, holds this object as NG-VG-4-289; its record gives material recorded as silver (me…
Partial type record
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
modern coins
Minden, Westphalia, emergency coin of 8 Mariengroschen, 1634
1634
Silver square emergency coin. Obverse: inscription in two lines: MINDA OBSESSA, below which is the year. Reverse: value indication in two lines with countermark of city arms: two crossed keys. The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, holds this object as KOG-MP-1-1284; its record gives material recorded as silver (metal); techni…
Partial type record
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