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48 Schilling
| Issuer | Lübeck, Free Hanseatic city of |
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| Year | 1752 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A double-headed imperial eagle, symbolizing the Holy Roman Empire, displayed with wings spread and surmounted by the imperial crown. The denomination '48' appears on an escutcheon on the eagle's breast. Below the eagle, a mintmaster's symbol of three ears of wheat is present in the field. The Latin peripheral legend identifies the coin as a new issue of the imperial city of Lübeck, encircling the entire design. |
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Lübeck's 48 Schilling denomination was a local accounting convenience, pegged to the city's own Lübische Mark system rather than to the emerging Reichsthaler standard that was consolidating monetary practice across much of northern Germany. By mid-century the city's commercial influence had long peaked — the Hanseatic League was effectively defunct as a political body — yet Lübeck jealously maintained its Free City status and its independent coinage prerogatives well into the nineteenth century. The 1752 date places this piece squarely in a period when the city's senate was navigating the economic pressures of the Seven Years' War buildup.