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1 Thaler
| Issuer | Lübeck, Free Hanseatic city of |
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| Year | 1579-1589 |
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| Reference(s) | MB#160, Dav GT I#9411, Behr#115 a |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | MONETA. NOVA. - LVBECENS. 1588 |
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Lübeck's thaler coinage of this decade was struck under the city's full municipal authority at a moment when the Hanseatic League, though visibly declining, still commanded enough commercial weight that Lübeck thalers circulated across the Baltic trade network without serious challenge. The city mint operated with considerable independence — Lübeck had held imperial free city status since 1226, and its monetary policy answered to the council, not to any territorial prince.
The Dav GT I#9411 attribution places this within Davenport's German Talers series, a classification that has held up well against subsequent scholarship on north German civic issues.