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Message:: [QUOTE="talerman, post: 7645604, member: 89314"][USER=77704]@panzerman[/USER] started this thread with a beautiful 1728 1/4 Ducat of the city of Lübeck.  Here are four humbler coins from the same city in less good condition. LUBECK  1/4 Mark  1506 This is a Wendish Monetary Union issue. The Hanseatic League cities of Lubeck, Hamburg, Luneburg & Wismar created the Wendish Monetary Union (Wendische Münzverein) in 1379. Under agreements made in 1502 and 1504, the first large silver coin was struck, the Mark (=16 Schilling or 192 Pfennig), on the basis of 13 Marks=1 Cologne mark of fine silver. On the obverse are the coats of arms of Hamburg (city walls and nettle leaf), Lüneburg (city wall and lion) and Wismar  (half bull's head and barry of 4), with in the centre a not so visible small shield with the Lübeck arms (divisions per fesse). [ATTACH=full]1314668[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1314669[/ATTACH] LUBECK   8 Schilling (1/4 Taler) 1549 featuring St. John the Baptist on the reverse [ATTACH=full]1314684[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1314685[/ATTACH] LUBECK   16 Schilling (Half Taler) 1546 featuring St. John the Baptist on reverse [ATTACH=full]1314671[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1314672[/ATTACH] LUBECK  8 Schilling (1/4 Taler) 1646 under Emperor Ferdinand III with a different St. John the Baptist on the obverse [ATTACH=full]1314677[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1314678[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]