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1 Schwaren
| Issuer | Bremen, City of |
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| Year | 1369-1454 |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Standing frontal figure of Saint Peter, the patron saint of Bremen, depicted in long robes with a nimbus (halo) surrounding his head, holding his episcopal attributes. The figure is rendered in a flat, stylized Gothic manner characteristic of 14th–15th century north German municipal coinage. A beaded inner circle frames the figure, with the saint's name inscribed in the surrounding Latin legend. The overall composition reflects the devotional iconographic tradition common to medieval Hanseatic city coinage. |
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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.