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2 Schillings

Issuer Stade, City of
Year 1640
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Obverse description Central city arms of Stade displayed within an oval ornamented cartouche, featuring a key motif surmounted by a cross, framed by decorative foliate scrollwork. The circular legend reads CIVITAS STADENSIS, with the date 1640 incorporated at the conclusion of the inscription. The coin exhibits a beaded border encircling the entire design, characteristic of hammered silver coinage of the period.
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Stade was under Swedish occupation by 1640, having been seized during the Thirty Years' War and formally ceded to Sweden at the Peace of Westphalia eight years later. This piece was struck while the city retained nominal municipal minting rights even under occupation — a circumstance that produced considerable variety in the local coinage as civic and occupying authorities negotiated control of the mint.

The Bahrf#34 variety designation signals a die difference from the principal type, though the specific distinguishing feature remains incompletely documented in the secondary literature.

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