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Issuing authority

Free Hanseatic City of Bremen

Kind
city-state
Region
Western Europe, Europe

Objects are filed under the historical authority that actually issued or made them. A recorded period comes from the issuer's own reference description and is left blank where no source states it.

Published entries

7

Individual types and documented families

With photographs

100%

7 with a credited real-object photo

Dated span

1660 – 1865

7 entries with their own date

Verified or well documented

0

Highest two confidence levels

Sorted by date, earliest first.

Free Hanseatic City of Bremen, reichsthaler, 1660

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

modern coins

Free Hanseatic City of Bremen, reichsthaler, 1660

1660

Silver coin. Obverse: crowned coat of arms of the city supported by two lions. Date in exergue. Reverse: crowned double-headed eagle with globus cruciger on breast. The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, holds this object as KOG-MP-1-1022; its record gives material recorded as silver (metal); technique striking (metalworking);…

Documented

Partial type record

Free Hanseatic City of Bremen, grote, 1753

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

modern coins

Free Hanseatic City of Bremen, grote, 1753

1753

Silver coin. Obverse: coat of arms of the city. Date at the end of the inscription. Reverse: crowned double-headed eagle with an oval on its breast, containing value designation: 1. Plain edge. The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, holds this object as KOG-MP-1-1028; its record gives material recorded as silver (metal); techn…

Documented

Partial type record

6 groten from the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen, 1763

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

modern coins

6 groten from the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen, 1763

1763

Silver coin. Obverse: crowned decorated coat of arms of the city. In the exergue, the date. Reverse: crowned double-headed eagle holding sceptre and sword in its talons and bearing an orb on its chest with denomination: 1/12 [taler]. Smooth edge. The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, holds this object as KOG-MP-1-1030; its re…

Documented

Partial type record

2½ Schwaren from the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen, 1802

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

modern coins

2½ Schwaren from the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen, 1802

1802

Copper coin. Obverse: between date, key, coat of arms of the city. Reverse: value indication in three lines, decoration below. Smooth edge. The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, holds this object as KOG-MP-1-1034; its record gives material recorded as copper (metal); technique striking (metalworking); measurements diameter 2.…

Documented

Partial type record

Taler on the opening of the exchange in Bremen

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

modern coins

Taler on the opening of the exchange in Bremen

1864

Obverse: new exchange building within legend; exergue: coat of arms on two crossed oak branches. Reverse: inscription beneath cross within oak wreath. The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, holds this object as NG-VG-1-4201; its record gives material recorded as silver (metal); technique striking (metalworking); measurements d…

Documented

Partial type record

Free Hanseatic City of Bremen, taler, 1865 B

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

modern coins

Free Hanseatic City of Bremen, taler, 1865 B

1865

Silver commemorative coin, struck on the occasion of the Zweites Deutsches Bundesschiessen, in Bremen. Obverse: crowned coat of arms of the city supported by two lions. Value indication in exergue. Reverse: between two crossed oak branches, on which two crossed rifles, five-line inscription, below which date. Cross…

Documented

Partial type record

Thaler on the Second German Federal Shooting Festival in Bremen

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

modern coins

Thaler on the Second German Federal Shooting Festival in Bremen

1865

Obverse: crowned coat of arms, flanked by two lions within legend; exergue: inscription. Reverse: inscription beneath cross within oak wreath; thereon two crossed rifles. The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, holds this object as NG-VG-1-4218; its record gives material recorded as silver (metal); technique striking (metalwork…

Documented

Partial type record

Dated entries by century

  • 17th century1
  • 18th century2
  • 19th century4

Only the 7 entries carrying their own date to within about 150 years are counted, by the earliest year given. These are catalogue holdings, not production totals.

Materials recorded in the physical descriptions

  • Silver6
  • Copper1

An entry made of several materials is counted once under each. Materials are counted only where the description states them.

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