2 Schillings

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.