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1/4 Witten
| Issuer | Lübeck, Free Hanseatic city of |
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| Year | 1300-1379 |
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| Obverse script | Latin (uncial) |
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| Reverse lettering | LVB |
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The Witten was the dominant small silver denomination across the Wendish monetary union, a cooperative framework among Lübeck, Hamburg, Wismar, and Rostock that attempted to standardize regional coinage from 1379 onward. This quarter denomination predates that formal agreement, placing it in the looser, earlier phase of Wendish monetary coordination when individual city minting rights still operated with considerably more independence.
At under 0.4 grams, these fractional pieces suffered heavy attrition in circulation and are rarely encountered without significant wear.