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The first documented record of the Erlangen Mint dates from 1385, during the reign of King Wenceslas, son of Charles IV. However, indications are that Charles IV had relocated it from Lauf to Erlangen as early as 1374 CE. Minted in Erlangen were mainly varieties of the so-called 'Erlangen penny', as well as half-groschen (a thicker silver coin) worth 12 pennies. This first minting site only existed until the beginning of the 15th century.

In 1548, Margrave Albrecht Alkibiades again established a sovereign mint in a house on Marktplatz (Market Square), which allegedly employed up to 30 journeymen, and minted silver coins of good quality. In 1550, however, this mint was already banned by imperial decree at the instigation of the Imperial City of Nuremberg, and destroyed during the second Margrave War in 1553.

At the beginning of the Thirty Years' War, a Kipper und Wipper mint ('tipper and see-saw' mint, denoting a time of financial upheaval during which states debased their currencies by reissuing them alloyed with base metals) also operated in Erlangen in 1621/22, producing inferior 24-kreutzer coins. The rapid decline of minting practices prompted Margrave Christian to close all mints on his territory in 1622.