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1⁄16 Thaler
| Issuer | Lübeck, Free Hanseatic city of |
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| Year | 1623-1683 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Lübeck's fractional thaler coinage of this period reflects the city's stubborn insistence on monetary independence during one of the most chaotic currency episodes in German history — the Kipper- und Wipperzeit, a debasement crisis that swept the Empire from roughly 1619 to 1623 and saw scores of mints produce wildly underweight silver. Lübeck, as a Free Imperial City with its own mint rights, resisted the worst of it, which is partly why its small silver retained credibility across the Baltic trade network.
The sixty-year production window for this type is unusually long, suggesting periodic restriking rather than continuous output.