Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
1⁄24 Thaler
| Issuer | Hamelin, City of |
|---|---|
| Year | 1612-1618 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Round (irregular) |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Log in to see details |
| Obverse lettering | MO · NO · CIV · Q · HAMEL · |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse script | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | MAT · I · RO · IM · S · A ❀ |
| Edge | Log in to see details |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Additional information |
Hamelin struck these small silver pieces during the years when the city was bracing for what would become the Thirty Years' War — a conflict that would devastate Lower Saxony more thoroughly than almost any other German region. The 1/24 Thaler denomination was part of the broader Kipper und Wipperzeit monetary chaos building across the Holy Roman Empire, a period of systematic currency debasement in which mints competed to strike underweight small silver at fraudulent face values. Hamelin's issues from this window predate the worst of that debasement, making them comparatively honest coins against what followed after 1618.