1 Schwaren

Bremen's Schwaren was a purely local reckoning unit, stubbornly maintained by the city-state long after neighboring territories had rationalized their coinage. The denomination survived into the late eighteenth century less by economic necessity than by civic inertia — Bremen's merchant class resisted monetary harmonization with the surrounding Hanoverian and Prussian systems for decades.

KM#166 spans nearly eighty years of production across multiple dies, and copper strikings from the earlier decades tend to show considerably more wear than later issues, reflecting genuine commercial use in Bremen's busy port trade.