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1 Semissis
| Issuer | Strasbourg, City of |
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| Year | 1620-1696 |
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| Currency | Thaler |
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| Obverse lettering | (Différent) SEMISSIS* ARGENTINENSIS |
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| Mintage | ND (1620-1696) |
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Strasbourg's civic coinage during this period straddled two monetary worlds. The city retained its status as a Free Imperial City until Louis XIV's forced annexation in 1681, after which French administrative pressure began reshaping local monetary practice — though the city's own issues continued under negotiated terms for some years. The semissis denomination itself is a Roman revival unit, its name reaching back to the half-as of the Republic, here repurposed by a German municipal mint navigating the wreckage of post-Thirty Years' War currency disorder in the Rhine valley.