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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;talerman, post: 3391164, member: 89314&quot;]Also from 1521, this much less impressive but interesting little coin</p><p><br /></p><p>Germany AUGSBURG&nbsp; Struck at the Imperial Mint by Eberhard IV, Count of Eppstein-Königstein&nbsp; Batzen 1521</p><p><br /></p><p>Apart from the coins of the Bishopric and of the City of Augsburg, there were also coins struck at an imperial mint with a curious history.&nbsp; In 1431 King Sigismund, unable to pay debts of 5450 Gulden, pledged or pawned the three southern Imperial mints of Nördlingen, Frankfurt and Basel to his chamberlain, Conrad XIII von Weinsburg.&nbsp; Conrad became the Imperial Chamberlain after Sigismund was elected Emperor and was invested with the fiefs of the lordships of Falkenstein, Königstein and Münzenberg. His granddaughter Katherine married Eberhard IV of Eppstein and in 1503 inherited the pawned imperial mints.&nbsp; In 1515 the Basel mint was transferred to Augsburg.&nbsp; Eberhard struck coins at Augsburg and Nördlingen.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]900976[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]900977[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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