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1 Schilling Gold Pattern
| Issuer | Lübeck, Free Hanseatic city of |
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| Year | 1789 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Reverse description | The reverse displays the denomination and issuing authority in five lines of bold Roman capital lettering across the plain field: the numeral 'I' at center top flanked by two pellets, followed by 'SCHILLING', 'LÜBISCH', the date '1789', and the mintmaster's initials 'H.D.F.' at the base. The stark, unadorned typographic layout is characteristic of late 18th-century North German pattern coinage intended to demonstrate die quality. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Lübeck's status as a Free Imperial City was under increasing economic and political strain by the late eighteenth century, and pattern issues like this one reflect the city council's periodic attempts to rationalize its coinage without committing to full production runs. A gold schilling at this weight made no practical monetary sense — the denomination was a workhorse of daily copper and billon commerce — which strongly suggests this was struck for presentation or cabinet purposes rather than any genuine circulating intent.
Behr's attribution places it among a small cluster of 1789 Lübeck patterns, none of which advanced to circulation.