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1 Schilling
| Issuer | Wismar, City of |
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| Year | 1626-1636 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#67, Kunzel#262 |
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| Reverse lettering | IMP SA FERDINAN II |
| Edge | Plain |
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Wismar's civic coinage of this period was issued under mounting pressure from the Thirty Years' War, which had turned the Baltic coast into a corridor of competing occupations. Swedish forces took the city in 1632, and the right to continue striking municipal silver was a point of negotiated civic privilege — not a given. Kunzel 262 places this type within a series that straddled both the pre- and post-Swedish periods of administration.
The relatively tight weight standard held across the decade suggests the city mint maintained discipline even as the broader German monetary system fractured around it.