1 Schwaren

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.