State mark
The State Mark is in the 16th century in Hamburg , Lüneburg , Wismar and Lübeck common currency coin of silver . It was minted from 1506 to 1550. Then the mark turned into a bill coin.
At the beginning of the 16th century, different types of mark pieces of the Lübische Mark were minted in the towns of the Wendish Mint . On December 29, 1506, the decision was made to mint a common mark coin. The reverse of the coin was inscribed "Statvs Marce Lvbice" (Status Marce Lubice), which gave this mark piece its name.
The state mark was issued in three different versions. The fineness was between 906.25 and 930.5 / 1000 and a mass of between 19.7 and 19.1 g. A state mark thus contained between 17.6 and 18 g of fine silver .
The treaty of the four cities stipulated that the mark pieces should bear the coats of arms of all four cities on the reverse. The coat of arms of the city in which the coin was actually minted is in the middle. The coats of arms of the other cities are arranged around the central coat of arms in the shape of a clover.
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- Pierer's Universal-Lexikon, Volume 16. Altenburg 1863, p. 634. Available online; accessed February 12, 2014
- Johann Karl Gottfried Jacobsson (1794) Technological dictionary or alphabetical explanation of all useful mechanical arts, manufactures, factories and craftsmen, part 7, Berlin / Stattin Friedrich Nicolay, p. 417