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1 Thaler
| Issuer | Hamburg, Free Hanseatic city of |
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| Year | 1553 |
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| Reference(s) | MB#31, Dav GT I#9216, Gaed#285 |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | 1553 |
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Hamburg's sixteenth-century thalers were struck under the monetary framework of the Holy Roman Empire following the 1524 Reichsmünzordnung, but the city's status as a Free Imperial City gave its mint unusual latitude in execution. The 1553 issue predates the city's famous banco thaler series by over half a century and circulated in a Hamburg that was already functioning as one of northern Europe's dominant commercial entrepôts, handling Baltic grain, English cloth, and Iberian silver simultaneously.
Gaedechens 285 is among the earlier attributions in the Hamburg thaler sequence, making survivors in any condition genuinely scarce on the open market.