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1/2 Thaler
| Issuer | Hamburg, Free Hanseatic city of |
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| Year | 1553 |
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| Reference(s) | MB#29, Gaed#532 |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | 1553 |
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Hamburg's half thaler coinage of the mid-sixteenth century falls within a period of aggressive monetary reorganization across the Holy Roman Empire following the 1551 Reichsmünzordnung, which attempted — with limited success — to standardize thaler-denomination silver across the German states. Hamburg, jealous of its commercial independence and deeply invested in Baltic and North Sea trade, maintained its own minting prerogatives as a matter of civic policy rather than imperial compliance. Gaedechens 532 is among the earlier documented varieties of this denomination for the city.