Common Penny

The common penny (also: Reichsmark ) was an imperial tax, the decision was taken to Maximilian I in 1495 at the Diet of Worms to give the Emperor the funds for the wars against France and the Ottoman Empire.

You should German nation from any subjects aged 15 years and are paid in the Holy Roman Empire. Depending on personal status and wealth it was designed as a head -, income - and property tax. But your recovery pushed around so much trouble that it was in 1505 explicitly exposed. She was after Hussitenpfennig ( 1427) another attempt by the introduction of a general imperial tax and was part of the comprehensive, but ultimately failed reform of the empire of Emperor Maximilian. Successor of the commons as a penny imperial tax was the chamber Zieler.