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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 1644383, member: 39&quot;]Yes, a fine coin. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; Also because the Free Cities were not monarchies and thus did not have the usual kings, dukes, etc. on their coins. Just one addition regarding the status: Hamburg was and still is both a city and a state. In the Deutsches Reich, a city could not have minted &quot;its own&quot; coins (not taking notgeld into account). Bremen, Hamburg and Lübeck however could, as they were states in the Empire.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Hamburg mint is ooold - in fact, it advertises the fact that today&#039;s &quot;J&quot; mint is the <a href="http://www.muenzehamburg.de/de/images/headline/hl_5_0_0.gif" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.muenzehamburg.de/de/images/headline/hl_5_0_0.gif" rel="nofollow">oldest one</a> among the current German mints. The first coins were minted in Hamburg (by the bishop) in the 9th century; the city has been minting coins since the early 14th century (brief <a href="http://www.muenzehamburg.de/en/historie/index.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.muenzehamburg.de/en/historie/index.htm" rel="nofollow">history</a> in English, more detailed <a href="http://www.muenzehamburg.de/de/historie/seite_5_1_0.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.muenzehamburg.de/de/historie/seite_5_1_0.htm" rel="nofollow">timeline</a> in German). It was the &quot;Great Fire&quot; in 1842 which destroyed much of the city, including the mint, and the decision to set up and build a new mint took more than 30 years. And in 1982 the mint moved to a new location. Unfortunately it cannot be visited ...</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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