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2 Schillings
| Issuer | Stade, City of |
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| Year | 1621 |
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| Value | 2 Schillings (1⁄16) |
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| Obverse description | Central two-line denomination inscription reading '2 / SCHILLO.' in bold lettering within a beaded inner circle, with a small set of crossed keys below the numeral. The surrounding legend reads 'MO NO CIV STADE' with the date incorporated at the end of the circular inscription. The entire design is enclosed within a beaded border typical of early seventeenth-century municipal hammered coinage. |
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| Reverse lettering | REICHS // TALER // SILBER |
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Stade issued this piece in 1621 during the thick of the Thirty Years' War, when the city's status as a major Hanseatic port on the Elbe made it both strategically coveted and financially pressed. Swedish forces would occupy the city in 1643, but in 1621 it remained under nominal Imperial authority — a precarious position that drove municipalities across northern Germany to assert local minting rights while central Habsburg power was stretched thin across multiple fronts.