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1 Witten
| Issuer | City of Rostock |
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| Year | 1350-1378 |
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| Currency | Witten |
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| Obverse script | Latin (uncial) |
| Obverse lettering | MONETA ROSTOCH |
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Rostock's civic coinage in the mid-fourteenth century reflects the city's growing autonomy within the Hanseatic network, issuing its own silver on the back of Baltic trade revenues. The Witten was the dominant small-denomination silver currency across the northern German coastal cities during this period, its value and weight conventions loosely shared but never fully standardized between mints.
Jesse #308 places this squarely within Rostock's independent civic issues rather than any territorial or ecclesiastical authority — a distinction that mattered enormously to the city's merchant class.