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1 Thaler
| Issuer | Lübeck, Free Hanseatic city of |
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| Year | 1676 |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Obverse lettering | MONETA. NOVA. - LUBECENSIS. |
| Reverse description | A crowned imperial double-headed eagle dominates the field, displayed with spread wings in the Holy Roman Empire tradition. An orb on the eagle's breast bears the denomination numeral 32, indicating the coin's value in Kreuzer within the imperial monetary system. A small escutcheon bearing the mayor's arms is placed below the eagle. The date 1676 appears at the conclusion of the peripheral legend, which attributes the coin to Emperor Leopold I. |
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Lübeck struck this thaler in the year the city formally ratified its post-war recovery following the depredations of the Swedish-Danish conflicts that had strangled Baltic trade for much of the mid-seventeenth century. As a Free Hanseatic city, Lübeck maintained its own coinage rights jealously — the right was both a commercial instrument and a declaration of independence from the encroaching territorial princes of the Holy Roman Empire.
The Behr reference places this among the documented civic issues of the period, though die marriages for 1676 are not extensively catalogued, and population data remains sparse.