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16 Schilling, Ferdinand III
| Issuer | Lübeck, Free Hanseatic city of |
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| Year | 1646 |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Obverse description | Central field depicts a frontal facing figure of Saint Peter, the patron saint of Lübeck, shown half-length and robed in draped garments, holding a key in his right hand and a book in his left. The figure is set within an inner beaded circle, below which appears the city arms of Lübeck — a divided shield bearing a cross and a diaper pattern. The date 1646 is inscribed in the upper field flanking the saint's head. The circumferential Latin legend reads MONE. NOVA - LVBECEN, separated by a star ornament. |
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| Obverse lettering | *MONE. NOVA - LVBECEN 1646 |
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Ferdinand III never ruled Lübeck — the city retained its status as a Free Imperial City, meaning this coin was struck in his name as Holy Roman Emperor without his direct hand in the matter. The year 1646 places it squarely in the closing negotiations of the Thirty Years' War, with the Peace of Westphalia still two years away. Lübeck had spent decades fighting to preserve its commercial autonomy as the war strangled Baltic trade routes.
The 16 Schilling denomination was a distinctly northern German unit, largely irrelevant outside the Hanseatic sphere.