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1 Dicken
| Issuer | Strasbourg, City of |
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| Year | 1600-1616 |
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| Weight | 9.7 g |
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| Obverse description | Central field occupied by the ornate crowned arms of Strasbourg — a diagonal bend sinister (bend argent on gules) displayed on an elaborately scrolled and foliate shield surmounted by a fleur-de-lis crown. The shield is rendered in high relief with fine decorative strapwork. A beaded inner circle frames the design, with a circular Latin legend running between the inner and outer beaded borders. |
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| Mintage | ND (1600-1616) |
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Strasbourg's civic coinage of this period was issued under the city's status as a Free Imperial City within the Holy Roman Empire — answerable to the Emperor in theory, but exercising near-total monetary autonomy in practice. The Dicken denomination itself was a Swiss-influenced heavy silver type that circulated widely across the Upper Rhine corridor, where Strasbourg's commercial reach extended into both French and German trading networks simultaneously.
The sixteen-year span of this type reflects deliberate policy continuity during a period when confessional tensions in Alsace were already tightening toward what would become the Thirty Years' War.