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1 Thaler
| Issuer | Wismar, City of |
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| Year | 1547-1552 |
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| Reference(s) | MB#38, Dav GT I#9935, Kunzel#66a, Schult#3620 |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | SPES - NOSTRA - IN DEO |
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Wismar's thaler coinage of this period reflects the city's status as a prosperous Hanseatic port at a moment of acute political tension — the Schmalkaldic War of 1546–47 had just reshuffled power across the Holy Roman Empire, with Charles V's victory at Mühlberg forcing Protestant cities to recalibrate their alliances carefully. Wismar, Lutheran since the 1520s, navigated this by maintaining civic coinage that asserted local authority without provoking imperial overreach.
The Kunkel 66a designation indicates the earlier die state within this emission sequence.