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2 Schillings
| Issuer | Hamburg, Free Hanseatic city of |
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| Year | 1600 |
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| Value | 2 Schilling (1⁄16) |
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| Reverse description | A crowned double-headed imperial eagle displayed in the field, its wings spread and a cross-tipped orb at center breast, representing the authority of the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II. A circular Latin legend surrounding the eagle carries the imperial titles of Rudolf II. The design follows the standard typology of imperial-sanctioned civic coinage of the period, with the eagle's crowns rendered in fine detail against a plain field. |
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| Reverse lettering | RUDOL II ROM IMP SEMP AUG |
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Hamburg's 2 Schilling coinage of this period falls within the city's long tradition of independent municipal minting, a right Hamburg exercised jealously as a Free Imperial City within the Holy Roman Empire. The Gaedechens reference places this squarely among the documented civic issues of the late 16th and early 17th century, a period when Hamburg's commercial dominance in the North Sea trade was translating directly into monetary output. KM#10 is a relatively early catalog assignment for the type, suggesting this sits among the foundational issues of the city's documented silver series.