1 Witten

Flensburg's civic coinage of this period reflects the city's growing autonomy within the Duchy of Schleswig — a contested territory that Danish and Holstein interests would fight over for centuries. The Witten was a north German denomination that emerged in the mid-fourteenth century as trade between Hanseatic cities demanded a reliable small silver unit above the pfennig but below the schilling. Flensburg, positioned at the head of the Flensburg Fjord, was commercially active enough by the 1360s to justify its own civic mint, though the precise duration of this issue across the twenty-year span attributed to it remains difficult to pin down by die study alone.