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1⁄24 Thaler
| Issuer | City of Wismar (German States) |
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| Year | 1661-1672 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Central field contains a four-line inscription denoting the denomination and issuing authority: · 24 · / REICHS / DALER / 1664, with pellet stops above and below, all within a plain inner circle. The surrounding circumferential legend WISMARS · STADT · GELDT · · 24 · REICHS DALER · 1664 · · · · runs along the outer beaded border, affirming this coin's status as Wismar city money valued at 1/24 Reichsthaler. The date 1664 appears both within the central field and in the outer legend on this particular die. |
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Wismar's civic coinage of this period exists in a peculiar administrative limbo. The city had been ceded to Sweden under the Peace of Westphalia in 1648, yet retained enough municipal autonomy to strike coins in its own name through the early 1670s. Swedish imperial authority sat overhead while the city's council managed day-to-day governance — and apparently, its mint. The AAJ references covering this type span nine discrete varieties, suggesting continuous die production across the full eleven-year window rather than a single contracted run.