Oberwahr

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Judenkopf dimes , characterized by 1444 to about 1451 as Oberwährgroschen, from the mint Freiberg (g silver, 2.82, diameter 28 mm, pitcher 764)

The Oberwähr , also known as the Oberwähre , is a term from the late medieval double currency that was introduced into the coinage system of Saxony and Thuringia with the coin reform of 1444. The good-value silver Oberwährgroschen were a hard currency that was mainly created for foreign trade. In contrast to this, the lower- value accessory groschen were used for general monetary transactions in the country and the purchase of the Erzgebirge mine silver .

Explanation

After the coin reform of 1444 under Elector Friedrich II the Meek of Saxony (1428–1464) from 1444 to around 1451 in the mints of Freiberg and Zwickau , the Jewish head groschen is an upper coin worth 1 ⁄ 20 of the Rhenish guilder (as opposed to the Shield groschen of the Beiwahr, of which 26 pieces corresponded to one Rhenish guilder). The double currency already failed in 1451 because of its effects, the general coin confusion. Nevertheless, in the coin reform of 1456, a further attempt at a double currency was carried out with the Saxon Turnose groschen minted according to the French model as upper currency for 20 pieces on the Rhenish guilder and the sword groschen as bypass for 26 pieces, and later on 34 pieces on the Rhenish guilder eventually led to the ultimate failure of this monetary system.

The abolition of the double penny currency

After the efforts had failed to form a stable currency by the coinage reforms 1444 and 1456/57 by providing a double Grosch currency in the form of a Oberwähr and a Beiwähr, was with the 1465 to 1469 embossed Horn dime created clear conditions. Although they were still referred to as Oberwährgroschen, they were not part of a dual currency.

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: The large coin dictionary from A to Z (2005), p. 321: Oberwähr
  2. ↑ Walther Haupt: Sächsische Münzkunde (1974), p. 70
  3. ↑ Heinz Fengler, ...: transpress Lexikon Numismatik (1976), p. 221
  4. ↑ Gerhard Krug: The Meissnisch-Saxon Groschen 1338-1500 (1974), p. 86
  5. ↑ Walther Haupt: Sächsische Münzkunde (1974), p. 84