(sold for $28.0)

1580, Nuremberg. Beautiful Early Brass Reckoning Token (Rechenpfennig) Coin. R!

Mint Period: ca. 1580-1600 AD
Reference: Mitchener, Jetons 1430.
Denomination: Rechenpfennig (Token)
Maker: Uncertain workshop, possibly of Damian Krauwinckel.
Mint Place: Nuremberg (as free City within the Holy Roman Empire).
Condition: Typical for this alloy and type dark patina, otherwise about XF!
Diameter: 28mm
Material: Brass
Weight: 4.83gm

Obverse: Rector (Rechenmeister) seated facing at accounting table, head 3/4 right. On table, nine counters right and and table left. All within decorative tressure-border.

Reverse: Alphabet in five lines (omitting J and U). All within decorative border.

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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.