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1 Schwaren
| Issuer | Bremen, City of |
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| Year | 1369-1454 |
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| Weight | 0.9 g |
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| Obverse description | Shield bearing the city arms of Bremen — a standing key — centrally positioned within the coin field, rendered in a bold Gothic style typical of medieval hammered coinage. The shield is enclosed by a beaded inner circle, with the circular Latin legend surrounding it in the field. The design is characteristic of late medieval German municipal coinage, with slightly irregular flan edges consistent with the hammered technique. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Bremen's Schwaren was a distinctly local denomination that persisted through the city's prolonged struggle to maintain independence from the Archbishop of Bremen — a conflict that shaped municipal coinage policy throughout the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. The city's merchant class demanded reliable small silver for everyday port transactions, and the Schwaren answered that need across nearly nine decades of continuous issue.
Jungk's corpus identifies meaningful variation across the run, and examples attributable to the earlier decades of this range tend to show sharper workmanship than later strikes.