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1 Witten
| Issuer | Rostock, City of |
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| Year | 1350-1378 |
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| Value | 1 Witten |
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| Obverse description | Central field depicts the Rostock griffin passant, rendered in a bold medieval style with wings raised and body turned to the left, occupying the majority of the flan. The creature is shown with characteristic heraldic detail including spread claws and a stylized tail. A circular beaded or rope border frames the design, within which the legend MONETA ROSTOCHIENSIS is inscribed in Gothic uncial characters. The strike is typical of hammered coinage of the period, resulting in a slightly irregular flan with some weakness at the periphery. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Rostock's civic coinage of this period reflects the city's growing autonomy within the Hanseatic network — by the mid-fourteenth century the town had consolidated enough commercial authority to mint on its own account rather than relying on territorial lords. The Witten was the workhorse denomination of Baltic trade in this era, circulating heavily across Mecklenburg and into Scandinavian markets.
Jesse 307 is among the more precisely documented of the Rostock Witten varieties, though the 1350–1378 window spans the tenure of several civic administrations, and attributing individual dies to specific years within that range remains unresolved in the literature.