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| Issuer | Lübeck, Free Hanseatic city of |
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| Year | 1673 |
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| Currency | Thaler |
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| Obverse lettering | MONETA NOVA LUBECENSIS |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Lübeck's thaler coinage of the 1670s was struck at a moment when the city's commercial dominance was already in steep decline — Hamburg had long surpassed it as the primary Baltic trading hub, and the Hanseatic League itself was effectively defunct by 1669 when the last formal Diet convened. The city continued striking high-quality silver thalers less out of monetary necessity than civic pride and the practical demands of residual merchant trade.
The Behr 184b designation distinguishes this from closely related die pairings in the same year; Lübeck's small municipal mint produced multiple thaler varieties in 1673 with subtle differences in the city arms rendering.