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1 Marck
| Issuer | Bremen, City of |
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| Year | 1614 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | MATTHIAS D G RO IMP SEMP AUGUSTUS 32 |
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Bremen's civic coinage of the early seventeenth century operated under a peculiar tension: the city was technically part of the Holy Roman Empire yet fiercely guarded its free imperial status, and its mint output reflected that independence. The 1614 Mark belongs to a period when Bremen was consolidating its monetary authority before the catastrophic disruptions of the Thirty Years' War, which broke out just four years later and would ultimately devastate the city's trade networks along the Weser.
The .750 fineness is slightly below the Reichsmark standard, a deliberate choice Bremen and other northern Hanseatic cities used to maintain local commercial advantage.