Catalog
1 Schilling
| Issuer | Hamburg, Free Hanseatic city of |
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| Year | 1468-1499 |
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| Weight | 2.04 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Central field features a quatrefoil cross with splayed arms, each terminating in a trefoil, enclosing the Hamburg shield — a white castle on a red field — at the center, superimposed upon a rayed sun or star device. Small pellets or trefoil ornaments decorate the angles between the cross arms. The whole is enclosed within a beaded inner circle. The devotional legend SIT NOMEN DOMINI BENEDICTUM ('Blessed be the name of the Lord') encircles the design in Gothic script between the beaded border and the outer rim, introduced by a cross pattée. |
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Hamburg's schilling coinage of this period emerged from the city's position as a dominant Hanseatic trading hub, where standardized silver currency was essential for settling accounts across the Baltic and North Sea networks. The weight standard here reflects ongoing pressure within the Hanseatic League to maintain interoperability with the coinage of Lübeck and other member cities — a coordination that broke down progressively through the later fifteenth century as individual mints began debasing to cover civic expenses.
The thirty-year span of this type across Gaed#908 makes precise die attribution difficult without die study, and examples vary noticeably in silver quality across the issue window.