Catalog
1 Schilling
| Issuer | Nuremberg, Free imperial city of |
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| Year | 1457 |
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| Value | 1 Schilling (12) |
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| Obverse description | The city arms of Nuremberg — a diagonally divided shield bearing a demi-eagle — displayed at center within a raised quatrefoil frame, flanked by decorative foliate elements at the lobes. The shield is rendered in bold relief characteristic of mid-15th century German hammered coinage. A circular beaded border surrounds the central device, with a Gothic legend running along the outer rim of the flan. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Nuremberg's schilling issues of the mid-fifteenth century were produced during a period when the city-state was aggressively consolidating its monetary authority against the competing coinage rights of the surrounding Franconian nobility. The 1457 date places this coin squarely within the tenure of the city's merchant oligarchy at the height of its commercial power, when Nuremberg sat at the crossroads of the Venetian and Flemish trade routes and needed reliable small silver to function as daily transactional currency.
Kelln 107 is among the scarcer die marriages in the schilling sequence, distinguished in Slg. Erl by flan preparation consistent with locally sourced Erzgebirge silver.