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1⁄64 Thaler Piedfort
| Issuer | Lübeck, Free Hanseatic city of |
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| Year | 1597 |
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| Value | 1⁄64 Thaler |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Crowned double-headed imperial eagle displayed in the field, with both heads facing outward and wings spread. The eagle's two heads are each shown in profile facing away from the center, beneath a single imperial crown at the top. A circular Latin legend surrounds the eagle, reading 'CIVITATIS IMPERIAL'. The design is enclosed within a beaded border, consistent with the hammered coinage style of late sixteenth-century Lübeck. |
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A piedfort of a 1/64 thaler is an unusual object. Piedforts at this denomination were almost certainly presentation or trial pieces — the 1/64 thaler was itself a tiny circulating coin, and doubling its thickness at standard diameter produces something too thick for practical use but too small for display. Lübeck's late-16th-century municipal finances were under persistent strain from the city's declining position in Baltic trade as Dutch and English competitors eroded Hanseatic dominance.
Behr 434a is a rare citation.