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1 Thaler 32 Schilling
| Issuer | City of Stralsund (German States) |
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| Year | 1611 |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Reverse description | Central field features a crowned imperial double-headed eagle with wings displayed, the heads facing outward to left and right, each crowned individually with an overall imperial crown above. On the breast of the eagle is an orb bearing the numeral 32, denoting the coin's value of 32 Schilling. The surrounding legend RVDOLPHVS. II. D. G. RO: IMP. SEM. AVGVS. runs in Roman capitals between two beaded borders, invoking the authority of Emperor Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor. The overall style is characteristic of late sixteenth- to early seventeenth-century hammered German imperial coinage. |
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| Mint | Stralsund Mint |
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Stralsund in 1611 was a prosperous Hanseatic port navigating the complicated politics of Swedish influence in the Baltic, a tension that would boil over into outright conflict within two decades. The city maintained its own minting rights as a free imperial city, and issues of this period reflect that civic independence — a status Stralsund would nearly lose permanently during the Thirty Years' War when Wallenstein's forces besieged it in 1628 and were famously repulsed, partly through Swedish military intervention.
The 32 Schilling valuation places it within the northern German Schilling-based accounting system then standard across Baltic trading cities, distinct from the Thaler reckoning used in the interior German states.