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1 Thaler
| Issuer | Lübeck, Free Hanseatic city of |
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| Year | 1610-1612 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Full-length facing figure of St. John the Baptist standing in high relief, holding the Agnus Dei (Lamb of God) in his left arm. The civic shield of Lübeck's arms is displayed below the saint, dividing the date, flanked at left and right by the smaller armorial shields of the reigning mayors. The peripheral Latin legend is interrupted by the devotional imagery and runs along the inner border of the coin's field. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Lübeck's thalers of this period were struck under the city's ancient mint privilege, jealously maintained against repeated pressure from the Danish crown throughout the early seventeenth century. The city's status as a leading Hanseatic power was already in structural decline by 1610 — Hamburg and Bremen were eroding its commercial dominance — yet the mint continued producing full-weight coinage as a deliberate assertion of municipal independence.
Behr 140a distinguishes this die pairing from closely related varieties by the arrangement of the city's heraldic quartering; misattributions between adjacent Behr numbers are common in trade.