Issuing authority

Magdeburg

Kind: city-state
Region: Western Europe, Europe

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

Individual types and documented families

With photographs

100%

3 with a credited real-object photo

Dated span

1551 – 1629

3 entries with their own date

Verified or well documented

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Catalogue entries (3)

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Double ducat, in the shape of an emergency coin from Magdeburg, commemorating the siege

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

modern coins

Double ducat, in the shape of an emergency coin from Magdeburg, commemorating the siege

1551 - 1641

Diamond-shaped emergency coin with a value of 2 ducats. Obverse: in a circular stamp: standing St. Maurice with banner in his left and coat of arms in his right hand between letters S and M; in the corners, clockwise: letters C, E, B and I. Reverse: in a circular stamp: standing St. Maurice with banner in his left a…

Documented

Partial type record

Groschen, emergency coin from Magdeburg, struck during the siege by imperial troops

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

modern coins

Groschen, emergency coin from Magdeburg, struck during the siege by imperial troops

1629

Obverse: woman with wreath in raised right hand standing in fortress between two towers. Reverse: rose within legend. The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, holds this object as NG-VG-4-278; its record gives material recorded as silver (metal); technique striking (metalworking); measurements diameter 1.9 cm x weight 10 g.

Documented

Partial type record

Twelve groschen, emergency coin from Magdeburg, struck during the siege by imperial troops

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

modern coins

Twelve groschen, emergency coin from Magdeburg, struck during the siege by imperial troops

1629

Obverse: woman with wreath in raised right hand standing in fortress between two towers within legend. Reverse: inscription within legend. The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, holds this object as NG-VG-4-277; its record gives material recorded as silver (metal); technique striking (metalworking); measurements diameter 3.7 c…

Documented

Partial type record

Dated entries by century

16th century1
17th century2

Only the 3 entries carrying their own date to within about 150 years are counted, by the earliest year given. These are catalogue holdings, not production totals.

Materials recorded in the physical descriptions

Silver2
Gold1

An entry made of several materials is counted once under each. Materials are counted only where the description states them.

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