1 Thaler

Hamelin struck this thaler just eleven years after the Peace of Westphalia negotiations began reshaping the political geography of the Holy Roman Empire — though the city itself had already endured repeated military occupation during the Thirty Years' War, with Swedish and Imperial forces both extracting contributions from the population through the 1620s and 1630s. Municipal coinages from Hamelin during this period reflect the city's tenacious grip on its minting rights despite the financial strain of wartime. The Kalv/Schr#212a designation distinguishes this as a specific die state within the 1639 output, an important distinction given that multiple working dies were employed that year.