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| Issuer | Rostock, City of |
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| Year | 1815-1824 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse lettering | ROSTOCKER MUNZE |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Rostock's municipal coinage authority survived well into the nineteenth century largely through institutional inertia — the city had jealously guarded its minting rights since the Hanseatic period, and local civic pride kept small-denomination copper production going long after neighboring territories had surrendered theirs to larger state authorities. By the 1820s, Mecklenburg's consolidating political pressures would effectively end independent civic issues of this kind.