Jahrbuch für Numismatik und Geldgeschichte · Volume 7 (1956)
Die Münzen der freien Reichsstadt Nürnberg (II)
- pp. 139–249
- Article
- German
Abstract
The second part of the catalogue. The silver coinage of this period appears uneven, because the coinage of central Europe was in a state of transition. When it took up striking, the city had a system progressive for its time, yet one resting on the pfennig and emphasising the groschen-like schilling, and so remaining regional in character. Because it had no mines of its own and metal was expensive to obtain, Nuremberg long resisted the large silver coin; only after the Esslingen imperial ordinance of 1524 did the issue of the guldengroschen begin in 1527, in numbers so small that it remained without monetary significance and ceased again in 1528. After 1531 no Nuremberg silver coinage is known for more than two decades, until the city struck to the first Augsburg ordinance in 1552.
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Kellner, Hans-Jörg: Die Münzen der freien Reichsstadt Nürnberg (II). In: Jahrbuch für Numismatik und Geldgeschichte 7 (1956), pp. 139–249.