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1553, Nuremberg. Early Dated Brass Reckoning Token (Rechenpfennig) Coin. aVF!

Mint Year: 1553
Condition: About VF!
Denomination: Rechenpfennig (Token)
Maker: Uncertain workshop, possibly of Damian Krauwinckel.
Mint Place: Nuremberg (as free City within the Holy Roman Empire).
Reference: Stalzer 57, M. B. Mitchiner, et al., “Nuremberg and its Jetons, c. 1475-1888: Chemical Compositions of the Alloys” in NC 147 (1987), 74.
Diameter: 25mm
Material: Brass
Weight: 4.31gm

Obverse: Rector seated facing at accounting table, head right. On table, five counters right and eight left.

Reverse: Alphabet in five lines (omitting J and U). Date (1553) below.

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Nuremberg is a city situated on the Pegnitz river and the Rhine-Main-Danube Canal. It is located about 170 kilometres north of Munich. The cultural flowering of Nuremberg in the 15th and 16th centuries made it the center of the German Renaissance. In 1525, Nuremberg accepted the Protestant Reformation, and in 1532, the religious Peace of Nuremberg, by which the Lutherans gained important concessions, was signed there. In 1632 during the Thirty Years' War, the city, occupied by the forces of Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, was besieged by the army of Imperial general Albrecht von Wallenstein.