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8 Schilling
| Issuer | Lübeck, Free Hanseatic city of |
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| Year | 1727-1758 |
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| Value | 8 Shillings (⅙) |
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| Obverse lettering | IMPERIALIS CIVITATIS 8 JJJ |
| Reverse description | Central composition featuring the crowned arms of the city of Lübeck — a white double-headed eagle on a red field — flanked symmetrically by two decorative palm or laurel branches. The denomination '8 SCHILLING' is inscribed across the upper portion of the field, while the legend LUBECKS COURANT GELDT with the date appears around the periphery, referencing the coin's status as local currency. |
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Lübeck's status as a Free Imperial City meant it retained minting rights long after most German territories had consolidated coinage under larger dynastic authorities. The 8 Schilling denomination served the city's Baltic trade networks during a period when Lübeck was fighting a slow economic rear-guard action against Hamburg and Bremen for regional commercial dominance — a competition it was, by this point, already losing.
The .625 fineness places this issue below the Lübisch Mark standard of earlier centuries, a quiet acknowledgment of the fiscal pressures facing smaller imperial cities by the mid-18th century.