Modern coin – HCR160867

Obverse

Inscription:

ER D G AR COL EL AD M HILD

Design:

Bust of the Archbishop, right.

Reverse

Inscription:

No legend

Design:

"1611 NVIE TOPL SILBR GROS STIFT HILDESH" in five lines, the date divided by an imperial orb with the value in arabic numerals.

Information

Category

Silver coin of the German states.

Period

Modern

Group

Authority

Hildesheim: bishopric

Person

Ernest of Bavaria, Archbishop-Elector of Cologne, Duke of Westphalia and Angria (from 1583), Bishop of Hildesheim (from 1573), Bishop of Liège (from 1581), Bishop of Freising, Bishop of Münster (from 1585)., 1566-1612

Reign

Dating

1611

Mint

Hildesheim

Denomination

2 Schilling (1/14 Thaler)

Metal

silver

Technique

struck

Measurements
Acquisition
Additional information
Ticket
References
Credit

Weight (g)

1.94

Diameter (mm)

Acquisition method

unknown provenance

Source

unknown

Acquisition credit

Acquired.

pattern

Reference

Nicol, (Krause), German Coins. : SImilar to KM# 20.

Note:

The reverse of this coin is given in Nicol (Krause), but the obverse is not this coin. It is possible that this is a pattern, possibly for a joint coinage with Munster, as it had a 1/14 Thaler value, however the bishopric of Hildesheim did not. Interestingly, this design of the reverse of this coin greatly resembles the 1/14 Thaler issues of Magdeburg of 1610 and 1612, KM# 15 and 18 respectively. These last coins are both very rare.

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