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Sword groschen of the Leipzig Mint , Mmz. Lily, mint master Hans Stockart, minted as an accessory from 1457 to 1461 (jug 916/1, double ring with a double ring, diameter 27 mm, 1.86 g, silver)

The Beiwähr or Beiwehre was the lower value part of the late medieval double currency of the Saxon Groschen period, consisting of Oberwähr and Beiwähr . It was introduced with the coin reform of 1444. In contrast to the Oberwähr Beiwähr served the general financial transactions in the country and the purchase of the Erzgebirge mining silver.

Explanation

The shield groschen minted according to the coinage system of 1444 were bypass groschen, which were minted in the mints of Leipzig , Freiberg and Zwickau with a value of 26 on the Rhenish guilder , while the Jewish head groschen were upper currency groschen, of which 20 pieces resulted in a Rhenish guilder.

The double currency already failed in 1451 because of its effects, the general coin confusion.

The second attempt at a double currency according to the coinage system of 1456 with the previous groschen under the new designation "sword groschen " as an accessory to 26 pieces, in 1461 already to 34 pieces per Rhenish guilder (see picture above) and the Saxon turnose groschen as an upper currency final failure of this monetary system.

Note : It was only with the horn groschen minted from 1465 to 1469 that the Wettins created clear conditions.

See also

literature

  • Gerhard Krug: The Meissnian-Saxon Groschen 1338–1500 , Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1974
  • Walther Haupt : Sächsische Münzkunde , Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1974
  • Helmut Kahnt: The large lexicon of coins from A to Z , Regenstauf 2005

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Helmut Kahnt: Das große Münzlexikon von A bis Z (2005), p. 46: Beiwähr
  2. ↑ Walther Haupt: Sächsische Münzkunde (1974), p. 70
  3. ^ Gerhard Krug: The Meissnisch-Saxon Groschen 1338-1500 , pp. 144/145
  4. ↑ Heinz Fengler, ...: transpress Lexikon Numismatik (1976), p. 221
  5. ↑ Gerhard Krug: The Meissnisch-Saxon Groschen 1338–1500 (1974), p. 149
  6. ↑ Helmut Kahnt: Das große Münzlexikon von A to Z (2005), p. 321
  7. ↑ Walther Haupt: Sächsische Münzkunde (1974), p. 84