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1 Thaler
| Issuer | Wismar, City of |
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| Year | 1596 |
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| Reference(s) | MB#87, Dav GT I#9942 |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | 1596 |
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Wismar's civic coinage of the 1590s was produced under the shadow of competing territorial pressures — the city nominally under Swedish suzerainty after 1648, but in 1596 still operating as a semi-autonomous Hanseatic member with the minting rights to prove it. The right to strike thalers was jealously guarded by imperial cities and towns, and Wismar exercised that privilege aggressively through this period.
Davenport's German Talers I attribution places this among a small run of civic issues that predate the disruptions of the Thirty Years' War, after which Wismar's monetary independence was substantially curtailed.