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2 Schillings
| Issuer | Wismar, City of |
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| Year | 1612-1619 |
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| Value | 2 Schillings (1⁄24) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Wismar's early seventeenth-century coinage was produced under persistent tension between the city's status as a free imperial city and the territorial ambitions of the Duke of Mecklenburg, whose claims over the port repeatedly threatened municipal minting rights. The city jealously guarded those rights as a marker of civic autonomy during a period when many smaller German mints were being absorbed by territorial princes.
The dating range reflects sequential annual issues rather than a single continuous production run — Wismar's mint was active in fits and starts, constrained by silver supply from Baltic trade fluctuations. The city would pass to Swedish control in 1648 under the Peace of Westphalia, effectively ending its independent coinage tradition.