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1 Mark
| Issuer | Lübeck, Free Hanseatic city of |
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| Year | 1549 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Single-headed imperial eagle displayed with spread wings, rendered in high relief within a beaded inner circle. The eagle faces to the right with detailed feathering on the wings and body, talons splayed at the base. The surrounding legend reads MONET(A).NOVA.LVBICENSIS with the date 1549 incorporated into the legend, struck in the hammered style characteristic of mid-16th century German municipal coinage. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Lübeck's 1549 Mark was struck during a period when the city was fighting to maintain its position as the dominant power of the Hanseatic League — a fight it was quietly losing. By mid-century, Antwerp had supplanted the League's trading networks across northern Europe, and Lübeck's merchant senate was acutely aware that credible coinage was one of the few remaining instruments of civic authority it could still project.
The weight of nearly 19 grams places this squarely in the tradition of the heavier north German Mark standard, before the Reichsmünzordnung reforms of 1559 imposed greater uniformity on imperial coinage. Lübeck would resist full compliance longer than most cities.