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1 Witten Dreipasswitten
| Issuer | Hamburg, Free Hanseatic city of |
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| Year | 1400 |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Obverse script | Latin (uncial) |
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| Reverse description | Central field again displays the Hamburg turreted castle with three towers, set within a beaded inner circle, closely mirroring the obverse type in the Dreipasswitten tradition. A small cross is visible beneath the central tower at the base of the castle design. The partial legend ANNO DNI appears in uncial Gothic lettering in the surrounding border, referencing the year of the Lord in the manner typical of late medieval Hanseatic civic coinage. The reverse field shows slight die irregularities consistent with hand-hammered production. The outer beaded border frames the composition. |
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Hamburg's Witten coinage emerged from the Wendish Monetary Union, a cooperative minting agreement among the northern Hanseatic cities — Hamburg, Lübeck, Wismar, Rostock, and Stralsund — that standardized silver coinage across the Baltic trading network from the late fourteenth century. The Dreipasswitten variant is distinguished by its trefoil design element, a deliberate departure from earlier Witten types that helps modern collectors sequence the city's late medieval issues.
Jesse 430 places this type firmly at the turn of the fifteenth century, a period when Hamburg's mint was under increasing pressure to maintain silver fineness as regional trade volumes expanded.