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3 Mark Nickel pattern strike : lettered edge
| Issuer | Free Hanseatic city of Lübeck (German States) |
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| Year | 1915 |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Lettered |
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Lübeck was one of the last surviving city-states of the old Hanseatic tradition, and by 1915 it was minting under severe wartime metal constraints that pushed the German monetary system toward base-metal experiments. This piece is a pattern — never approved for circulation — produced as part of a broader Reich-wide effort to evaluate nickel as a substitute for the silver coinage being pulled from circulation to fund the war. The lettered edge variant of Schaaf 82/G2 distinguishes it from the plain-edge strikes of the same trial, indicating at least two parallel die or collar configurations were tested.