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1/2 Schautaler Hochzeitstaler
| Issuer | Lübeck, Free Hanseatic city of |
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| Year | 1636 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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The 1636 Lübeck wedding taler was struck to commemorate a patrician marriage — a long-established tradition among the free cities of the Holy Roman Empire, where civic mints produced presentation pieces for prominent families as both gifts and instruments of social display. Lübeck's mint was particularly active in this genre through the Thirty Years' War period, a conflict that had by 1636 ground into its eighteenth year and devastated much of the surrounding region.
That a prosperous enough union could still occasion a commemorative striking in that year says something about the relative insulation of Lübeck's merchant class from the war's worst disruptions.