Hamburg 1841-HSK schilling
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This specimen was lot 938 in Stephen Album internet sale 28 (Santa Rosa, CA, July 2024), where it did not sell. The catalog description[1] noted, "HAMBURG: Free Hanseatic City, BI schilling, 1841, AU." The Hamburg mint is still in operation, striking coins for the Federal Republic of Germany. This type was struck 1841 only while Hamburg was an independent Free City but is common. The schilling was one sixteenth of a thaler altho Hamburg struck no thalers during the nineteenth century. This and all other German minor coinage was rendered obsolete by the coinage reform of 1871.
Recorded mintage: 148,800.
Specification: 1.08 g, 0.375 fine silver.
Catalog reference: KM-558.
- Craig, William D., Germanic Coinages: Charlemagne through Wilhelm II, Mountain View, CA: 1954.
- Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1801-1900, 9th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
- [1]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Norman Douglas Nicol, Internet Auction 28, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2024.
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