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Research Coins: Feature Auction

 
Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 1803. Estimate $100. 
Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010. 
Sold For $100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

GERMANY, Hamburg (Stadt). AR Schilling (2.21 g, 2h). Struck mid-late 15th century. + MOnЄTΛ · nOVΛ (lis) hΛMBVRGЄn’ (annulet stop), three-towered city gate / + SIGnO (lis) CRVCIS (star) SΛLVЄMVR, shield within quatrelobe; cross pattée behind; trefoil in each angle. Saurma 3410. VF.


From the Leonard O. Greenfield Collection.

The old and new city were joined in 1216, thus forming Hamburg. In 1241, an alliance was forged with Lübeck, and Hamburg acquired city rights in 1270, subsequently joining the Wendische Münzverein.