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1 Schwaren
| Issuer | Bremen, City of |
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| Year | 1781 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#215 |
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| Reverse description | Within a beaded inner circle on a square klippe flan, the denomination is inscribed in three lines across the field: 'I' on the first line, flanked on either side by a six-petalled rosette ornament; 'SCHWA' on the second line; and 'REN' on the third line. Below the denomination, a decorative scroll or flourish separates the legend from the mint initials 'D.B.' (Deputierte Bürger, the civic mint authority of Bremen), positioned in the lower field. The bold, upright lettering and symmetric layout are characteristic of late 18th-century German municipal coinage. |
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| Reverse lettering | I SCHWA REN D B |
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Bremen's Schwaren was a deeply local denomination, used almost exclusively within the city-state's own markets and largely ignored by neighboring territories. By 1781, the Holy Roman Empire's monetary framework was fragmenting under the pressure of dozens of competing municipal and territorial coinages, and Bremen's civic mint continued striking small copper for everyday transactions with little regard for imperial standardization.
KM#215 represents one of the later issues in a long Schwaren series; Bremen would continue minting independently until French annexation in 1810 under Napoleon's reorganization of northern German territories.