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1 Witten

Issuer Anklam, City of
Year 1370-1378
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Shape Round (irregular)
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Obverse script Latin (uncial)
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Edge Plain
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Anklam was a Hanseatic League member whose commercial reach along the Oder River estuary gave it the standing to issue its own coinage. The Witten was the dominant small silver denomination across the Wendish towns in the third quarter of the fourteenth century, its acceptance governed by periodic monetary agreements between Lübeck, Rostock, Wismar, Stralsund, Greifswald, and Stettin — Anklam operating on the margins of these arrangements rather than at their center.

Jesse 346 places this emission firmly within the 1370s monetary framework, when the Wendish towns repeatedly renegotiated fineness standards to combat debasement by competing issuers.

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