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1 Dreiling
| Issuer | Lübeck, Free Hanseatic city of |
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| Year | 1549-1554 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Reverse description | Central field displays the Imperial eagle within a heart-shaped (pointed-base) shield, identifying Lübeck's status as a free imperial city. The surrounding Latin legend CIVITAS IMPERIALIS encircles the shield, affirming the city's direct subordination to the Holy Roman Emperor. The design is executed in the plain, compact style typical of small-denomination hammered silver coinage of the mid-sixteenth century. |
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| Reverse lettering | CIVITAS IMPERIALIS |
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The Dreiling — literally "three-ling," a coin worth three pfennig — was the workhorse small denomination of the northern German Hanseatic cities during the mid-sixteenth century. Lübeck's issues of this period were struck under the authority of a city-state still nominally at the height of its commercial power, though the 1550s marked the beginning of a structural decline in Hanseatic dominance over Baltic trade as Dutch shipping interests increasingly undercut the League's centuries-old network.
At under two-thirds of a gram, production consistency across a five-year emission range was almost impossible to enforce by hand at the die.