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1 Sechsling
| Issuer | Hamburg, Free Hanseatic city of |
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| Year | 1553 |
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| Currency | Thaler (1552-1674) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Hamburg's Sechsling coinage of the sixteenth century emerged from the city's need to maintain small-denomination silver for daily commerce while the larger Groschen and Thaler denominations dominated interregional trade. The Free Hanseatic cities operated their own minting authorities with considerable independence from imperial oversight, and Hamburg's mint was among the more active in northern Germany during this period.
The Jesse reference places this among a well-documented but genuinely scarce survival — sixteenth-century small silver circulated hard and was frequently melted when debased or worn beyond use.