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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;talerman, post: 7986781, member: 89314&quot;]Germany MARSBERG&nbsp; Emperor Rudolf II&nbsp; 1/24 Taler (Groschen)&nbsp; 1606</p><p><br /></p><p>Marsberg owed allegiance to the abbots of Corvey and to their spiritual overlords, the archbishops of Cologne.&nbsp; The town struck some local coinage like this one in the first third of the 17th century.&nbsp; The shields on the obverse include the arms of the archbishops of Cologne (cross) as well as Marsberg (A). It is a mystery why Marsberg has A as its coat of arms. It has been suggested that a Christian mission in the 8th century started trying to convert the Saxons there and the stylised A refers to &quot;I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End&quot; (Revelations 22,13). </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1385953[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1385954[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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