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1 Thaler
| Issuer | Hamelin, City of |
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| Year | 1556-1558 |
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| Reference(s) | MB#10.2, Dav GT I#9232, Kalv/Schr#43 |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Hamelin struck thalers in its own name during the 1550s while technically a free imperial city, though its independence was increasingly nominal — the town had been pledged to the Duchy of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel decades earlier and would formally lose its autonomy not long after. The civic coinage of this period was partly an assertion of residual rights as much as a practical monetary exercise.
The Davenport reference GT I#9232 places this firmly in the early Lower Saxon thaler tradition. The Kalveran/Schrock catalog remains the specialist reference for Hamelin civic issues, and the #43 designation within it suggests this is not among the rarest die combinations documented for the type.