1 Dreier

Hamelin's civic coinage of the 1670s was produced under the ever-tightening fiscal pressure of post-Thirty Years' War reconstruction, when smaller German municipalities still clung to minting rights that larger territorial lords were actively trying to absorb. The Dreier — worth three Pfennig — was the workhorse of local retail exchange, and Hamelin's issues from this decade are catalogued across multiple die marriages under the Kalv/Schr series, suggesting higher-than-expected production volume for a town of its size.