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2 Schillings
| Issuer | Free Hanseatic City of Hamburg |
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| Year | 1762-1763 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | The obverse displays the Arms of Hamburg — a crenellated white castle with three towers on a red field — centrally positioned within an ornamental wreath of laurel or oak branches. The mintmaster initials 'OHK' appear in the lower field below the shield, flanked by small decorative stops. The circular legend 'HAMBURGER COURANT' runs along the periphery in Latin script, interrupted at the base by the mint initials. The overall design is executed in a robust provincial baroque style characteristic of mid-18th century German civic coinage. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Hamburg's 2 Schilling billon issues of 1762–63 fall squarely within the Seven Years' War, a conflict that disrupted trade networks across northern Europe and forced Hamburg — as a neutral free city dependent on commerce — into careful monetary maneuvering. The city's mint was kept busy partly because surrounding territories were debasing their own coinage aggressively, a practice Hamburg officially condemned while quietly adjusting its own silver ratios to remain competitive in daily transaction currency.
KM#419 is a short-dated type, struck across just two years before the series was revised.