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1 Thaler
| Issuer | Rostock, City of |
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| Year | 1607-1612 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | RVDOL II DG RO IM SEM AVG S P F D 1 32 |
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Rostock's thaler coinage of this period was struck under the city's own municipal authority at a time when the Hanseatic ports were fighting to maintain economic independence against encroaching ducal power in Mecklenburg. The city had operated its own mint intermittently since the medieval period, and this issue represents one of its more sustained runs of production — the five-year span suggesting relatively stable demand from Baltic trade rather than emergency coinage.
Davenport's CCT listing places it firmly within the corpus of northern German municipal thalers, a category where die marriages between obverse and reverse pairs are frequently documented. Kunzel 66 B/b denotes a specific die combination within that sequence.