1 Sechsling

Wismar's civic coinage of the early fifteenth century reflects the city's position within the Wendish monetary union, a loose agreement among Lübeck, Hamburg, Wismar, Lüneburg, and later Rostock to maintain compatible silver coinages across the Baltic trading network. The Sechsling — worth six Pfennig — occupied the workhorse denomination of everyday commerce in the Hanseatic towns. Jesse 426a sits among a tightly clustered group of Wismar types distinguished primarily by subtle bracteat-style die variations that specialists use to sequence production across this half-century window.