1 Schilling

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.