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1716, Nuremberg (Free City). Tiny Silver 3 Kreuzer (Kerzendreier) Token. XF!

Mint Period: 1677-1716
Condition: A nice XF-AU, naturally bent by the roller dies!
Denomination: Token of 3 Kreuzer (a so called "Kerzendreier")
Mint Place: Nuremberg (as free City within the Holy Roman Empire).
Diameter: 17mm
Material: Silver
Weight: 0.92gm

Obverse: Two birds philandering.
Legend: UNSER SÜSSESTER BERUF ("Our sweetest occupation...")
Exergue: Kerzen

Reverse: A cockerel on a hen.
Legend: IST DAS GLÜCK DER LIEBE ("Is the fortune in our Love!")
Exergue: Dreier

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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.