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1 Schilling
| Issuer | Hamburg, Free Hanseatic city of |
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| Year | 1553-1566 |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Obverse lettering | MONE.NOV(A).HAMBVRGEN(S) |
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| Mint | Hamburg Mint |
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Hamburg's schilling coinage of this period was issued under the city's jealously guarded monetary autonomy, exercised through its membership in the Lower Saxon Circle — one of the administrative divisions of the Holy Roman Empire charged with regulating regional coinage standards. The mid-sixteenth century was a period of persistent tension between imperial monetary reform ambitions and the practical resistance of commercial cities like Hamburg, whose merchants demanded local coin they could trust.
The fourteen-year span of this type reflects production continuity rather than a single issue — dies were reused and updated across multiple years without redesign.