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Double Vierer with shield
| Issuer | Colmar, City of |
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| Year | 1600-1660 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse displays a bold long cross extending to the coin's edge and dividing the field into four quadrants, a design motif common to small silver denominatons of the Holy Roman Empire. The angles of the cross are plain, with no intervening symbols or mint marks visible in the quadrants. A beaded inner circle frames the cross design, outside of which runs the circular Latin legend S MARTIN PATRON, invoking Saint Martin as patron of the city. The lettering is rendered in a Gothic-influenced lapidary script consistent with Alsatian municipal issues of the early seventeenth century. The coin's irregular flan and variable strike are characteristic of hammered technique. |
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Colmar occupied an uncomfortable position throughout the Thirty Years' War — nominally under Habsburg suzerainty but effectively a free imperial city with its own monetary prerogatives. Small billon and silver issues like this double vierer were the daily workhorses of local commerce when larger regional coinage was hoarded or simply unavailable. The city would pass permanently to France under the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648, making the later dates of this emission among the final independent municipal coinage struck before French administration absorbed Alsatian civic minting rights.