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1/2 Mark
| Issuer | Lübeck, Free Hanseatic city of |
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| Year | 1549 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Reverse description | Full-length frontal figure of St. John the Baptist standing erect within a pointed elliptical (vesica piscis) frame, the saint depicted holding the Agnus Dei (Lamb of God) in his arms. A small shield of the Lübeck civic arms is placed at his feet within the frame. The abbreviated Latin legend identifying the patron saint is disposed around the frame in the field. |
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| Reverse lettering | .SANCT`.IOH`. / .NES.BAPTIS. |
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Lübeck's minting rights in the sixteenth century were a point of fierce civic pride and practical necessity — the city's position as the dominant power within the Hanseatic League demanded a credible independent coinage. By 1549 that dominance was already fraying, with Hamburg and Bremen asserting greater commercial independence, but Lübeck's mint continued producing silver fractions that circulated widely across the Baltic trade network.
The Jesse#549 attribution places this among the more precisely documented Lübeck silver issues of the period, cross-referenced against Behr's earlier die studies.