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1 Schilling
| Issuer | Ulm, City of |
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| Year | 1404-1422 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | The obverse features the city arms of Ulm displayed within a trefoil, with the letters U, L, and M positioned in the surrounding angles, each separated by five-petalled rosettes. The trefoil design is framed by a beaded inner circle, outside of which runs the circular legend. The overall composition reflects the Gothic civic heraldic style typical of late medieval German municipal coinage. |
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| Mintage | ND (1404-1422) |
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Ulm's civic minting authority in the early fifteenth century operated under an imperial privilege that the city jealously guarded against encroachment from regional lords. These schillings circulated across the dense network of southern German trading routes connecting Ulm to Augsburg, Nuremberg, and the Alpine passes — a commercial web that made small silver coinage genuinely essential rather than ceremonially convenient. At 0.42 grams against a 22mm flan, the metal content is strikingly thin even by bracteate-adjacent standards of the period.