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1/2 Mark
| Issuer | Lübeck, Free Hanseatic city of |
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| Year | 1506 |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Obverse script | Latin (uncial) |
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| Reverse description | Full-length frontal standing figure of Saint John the Baptist, robed, holding the Agnus Dei (Lamb of God) before him. A small civic arms shield is placed at his feet. The entire composition is enclosed within a pointed vesica (pointed elliptical) frame typical of Gothic ecclesiastical numismatic art. The abbreviated circumferential legend reads: SAnCT IOh` nES BAPTIS. |
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Lübeck's status as a Free Hanseatic city gave its mint unusual autonomy in the early sixteenth century, and the city exercised that right aggressively. By 1506, the Hanseatic League was in structural decline — competition from rising Atlantic trade routes was already eroding the Baltic commercial dominance that had made Lübeck wealthy — yet the city continued striking its own silver coinage with full civic authority.
MB#26 is a scarce reference in the series. Few examples surface in trade.