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1586, Nuremberg. Brass Reckoning Token (Rechenpfennig) by Hans Krauwickel II.

Condition: VF
Mint Period: 1586-1635 AD
Reference: Mitchener, Jetons 1537.
Maker: Hans Krauwinckel II (1586-1635
Denomination: Rechenpfennig (Reckoning Token)
Mint Place: Nuremberg (as free City within the Holy Roman Empire).
Diameter: 21mm
Material: Brass
Weight: 1.05gm

Obverse: Alternating crowns and lis around central rose. Quatrefoils flanking lis.

Reverse: Globus cruciger within tressure of three main arches. Quatrefoils around.

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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.