Person
Name	Gruber, Johann (Hans)
	Johann or Hans Gruber. Mintmaster in Nordhausen from 1618 to 1620, and again from 1623 to 1624. Mintmaster in Sondershausen 1621. Because of the similaritiy of the first name („Hans“as an established shortcut of „Johann“), of the spatial proximity of Nordhausen and Sondershausen, as well as the fact, that Gruber was not employed in Nordhausen in 1621, it must be assumed that the mintmaster of Nordhausen Hans Gruber and the mintmaster of Sondershausen are actually the same individual. Gruber signs with his initials HG. Lit.: M. Grimm, Überlegungen zur Tätigkeit von Kippermünzstätten der Grafen von Schwarzburg-Sondershausen - die Prägungen von 1619-1622, Jahrbuch der Gesellschaft für Thüringer Münz- und Medaillenkunde 15, 2004, pp. 74-94, 79-92; E. Lejeune, Die neueren Münzen und Medaillen der Reichsstadt Nordhausen (1910) p. 1.
Types	Mintmaster (MM Mod)
Permalink	https://ikmk.smb.museum/ndp/person/7956
created	10.05.2024
changed	11.11.2024
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Person

Name

Gruber, Johann (Hans)

Johann or Hans Gruber.

Mintmaster in Nordhausen from 1618 to 1620, and again from 1623 to 1624. Mintmaster in Sondershausen 1621.

Because of the similaritiy of the first name („Hans“as an established shortcut of „Johann“), of the spatial proximity of Nordhausen and Sondershausen, as well as the fact, that Gruber was not employed in Nordhausen in 1621, it must be assumed that the mintmaster of Nordhausen Hans Gruber and the mintmaster of Sondershausen are actually the same individual.

Gruber signs with his initials HG.

Lit.: M. Grimm, Überlegungen zur Tätigkeit von Kippermünzstätten der Grafen von Schwarzburg-Sondershausen - die Prägungen von 1619-1622, Jahrbuch der Gesellschaft für Thüringer Münz- und Medaillenkunde 15, 2004, pp. 74-94, 79-92; E. Lejeune, Die neueren Münzen und Medaillen der Reichsstadt Nordhausen (1910) p. 1.

Types

Mintmaster (MM Mod)

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https://ikmk.smb.museum/ndp/person/7956

created

10.05.2024

changed

11.11.2024

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