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2 Schillings
| Issuer | Wismar, City of |
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| Year | 1523-1532 |
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| Weight | 3.69 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin (uncial) |
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| Reverse description | Full-length frontal figure of Saint Laurence, patron saint of Wismar, depicted in ecclesiastical vestments with a nimbus; the saint holds a gridiron in his right hand and a book or manuscript in his left. The figure stands on a decorative pedestal within the inner beaded circle, with a Gothic uncial legend naming the saint encircling the design between the inner and outer beaded borders. |
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Wismar's early sixteenth-century schilling issues fall within the period when the Hanseatic city was navigating the competing pressures of Reformation politics and its commercial obligations to Lübeck. The city maintained its own mint rights through this decade largely because the larger Hanseatic mints were themselves in monetary disarray following the debasement controversies of the 1510s.
Kunzel's attribution distinguishes this type from the closely related 42b variety by die alignment and minor legend differences — a distinction that matters considerably for completeness in a Wismar civic series.