GERMAN STATES NÜRNBERG 1 pfennig 1704

Description

Nürnberg (Nuremberg) is in the Franconia region of Bavaria in southern Germany. There was an Imperial castle in 1050. It was established as a burgravate in the 12th century. It’s governance became a bone of contention between factions, so there was strife. There were other aggravations. It was notably anti-semitic for several centuries. The city did a lot of trade, though, and became prosperous. Trade routes changed and there was decline. It never became poor.

The political arrangements that resulted in the nations of modern Europe began to emerge out of local autonomy starting in the 7th century AD or so. Europe, for our purposes, stretches from Greenland to somewhere in Russia. Collectors of Europe would likely include Russia. Collectors of Asia, even though about 2/3 of Russia is in Asia, probably not.

By “Modern World Coins” we mean here, generally, the round, flat, shiny metal objects that people have used for money and still do. “Modern,” though, varies by location. There was some other way they were doing their economies, and then they switched over to “modern coins,” then they went toward paper money, now we’re all going toward digital, a future in which kids look at a coin and say “What’s that?” We’ll say: “We used to use those to buy things.” Kids will ask “How?” The main catalog reference is the Standard Catalog of World Coins, to which the KM numbers refer.