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2 Thalers
| Issuer | Free Hanseatic city of Hamburg (German States) |
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| Year | 1635-1668 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Reverse lettering | IESUS CHRISTUS • MACHET • WASSER • Z. • WEIN • IN • CANA • GAL : IO : II |
| Edge | Plain |
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Hamburg's double thaler output across this period belongs to the city's determined effort to maintain a credible high-denomination silver currency while the Thirty Years' War (ending 1648) and its chaotic aftermath disrupted trade networks across northern Europe. The city-state's status as a neutral commercial hub made sound money a political instrument as much as an economic one — merchants from Lübeck to Amsterdam settled accounts in Hamburg silver precisely because they trusted it.
At 59mm across, these pieces were struck on manually rolled planchets, and flatness irregularities are common to the type rather than indicative of any particular specimen's history.