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1 Thaler
| Issuer | Lübeck, Free Hanseatic city of |
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| Year | 1591 |
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| Value | 1 Thaler |
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| Obverse description | Central figure of Saint John the Evangelist standing facing, depicted bearded and draped in layered robes, holding a book in his left hand with an eagle at his right side — the traditional attributes of the evangelist. Below the figure, the city arms of Lübeck are displayed on a shield: a quartered coat divided with a hatched base and a fleur-de-lis emblem. The date 1591 is incorporated into the circular outer legend, which reads MONETA. NOVA. LVBECENS., arranged around the inner rope border. The overall relief is rendered in the robust late-Renaissance style characteristic of North German hammered coinage. |
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| Obverse lettering | MONETA. NOVA. LVBECENS. 1591 |
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Lübeck's thaler coinage of this period reflects the city's stubborn insistence on maintaining independent monetary policy despite mounting pressure from the emerging circle coinage system being standardized across the Reich. By 1591, the city's commercial dominance in the Baltic was eroding — the Hanseatic League itself was fracturing, with Cologne and Hamburg increasingly acting unilaterally — yet Lübeck continued striking to its own weight standard, a quiet assertion of a sovereignty that was already slipping.
Davenport's cataloguing under GT I rather than the main sequence places this squarely in the transitional thaler issues predating full Reichsthaler conformity.