1 Thaler

Wismar in 1556 was a prosperous Hanseatic port on the Baltic, and the city's right to strike thalers derived from imperial minting privileges jealously defended against encroachment by the Dukes of Mecklenburg, whose territories surrounded it on three sides. The city would eventually lose that independence — Sweden seized Wismar in 1648 under the Peace of Westphalia and held it for nearly two centuries.

Kunzel 70 A/a places this among the earliest confirmed thaler strikings for the city, a series that remained small in total output throughout the sixteenth century.