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1 Schilling
| Issuer | Ravensburg, City of |
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| Year | 1426-1450 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse description | Within a beaded inner circle, the city arms of Ravensburg — a crowned triple-towered gate — are depicted centrally, enclosed within a quatrefoil frame. The towers are rendered in a Gothic architectural style characteristic of 15th-century municipal coinage. A Gothic Latin legend encircles the entire design between the inner beaded circle and the irregular coin edge, separated by cross stops. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Ravensburg held the status of a Free Imperial City throughout this period, answerable directly to the emperor rather than any territorial lord, which gave its mint the authority to strike silver on its own account. The city's wealth in the early fifteenth century derived primarily from the Große Ravensburger Handelsgesellschaft, one of the largest trading companies in the German-speaking world, active across the Alps into Italy and the Iberian Peninsula — a commercial network that generated genuine demand for locally struck, trusted silver.
The Nau and Lanz references place this piece within a well-documented civic series, though die studies have not been exhaustive.