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1 Thaler
| Issuer | Hamburg, Free Hanseatic city of |
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| Year | 1608-1612 |
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| Weight | 29.0 g |
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| Reverse description | A crowned double-headed imperial eagle displayed in the field, with wings spread and both heads crowned, bearing an orb on the breast inscribed with the value numeral '32'. The design references the authority of the Holy Roman Emperor under whose suzerainty Hamburg operated. A beaded inner circle frames the eagle, while the surrounding circular Latin legend names Emperor Rudolf II and his imperial titles. |
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| Mint | Hamburg Mint |
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Hamburg's thalers of this period were minted under the authority of the city's own coinage right, jealously defended against both Danish encroachment and Holy Roman Imperial pressure to conform to the 1559 Augsburg reichsmünzordnung. The city had been striking heavy silver independently since the late sixteenth century, and these issues circulated heavily through the Baltic trade networks alongside Lübeck and Bremen issues of comparable weight.
The Dav CCT designation places this within the broader corpus of dated thaler coinage rather than a specialized Hamburg sequence — Gaed#368 remains the primary Hamburg-specific reference for attribution.