1 Thaler

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.