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1 Schilling
| Issuer | Lübeck, Free Hanseatic city of |
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| Year | 1789 |
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| Composition | Billon (.375 silver) |
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| Obverse description | Double-headed imperial eagle displayed with wings spread, surmounted by a single imperial crown. An escutcheon bearing the arms of Lübeck is superimposed on the eagle's breast. The design occupies the full field with no surrounding legend, in the tradition of Holy Roman Empire civic coinage. |
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| Mintage | 1789 HDF - - 554,000 |
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Lübeck's continued use of billon coinage this late in the eighteenth century reflects the city's stubborn monetary conservatism — by 1789, most German states had long rationalized their small-denomination issues, but the Hanseatic cities maintained archaic fractional types partly out of civic pride and partly because small-scale Baltic trade still demanded familiar, trusted denominations. The city's commercial autonomy, jealously guarded since the Hanseatic League's peak centuries earlier, meant its mint operated on its own terms well into the Napoleonic period, which would finally force the issue.