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nydus/The History of Currency, 1252 to 1896Public
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CHAPTER II

Schillingen.Pfennige.Schillingen.Pfennige.
Aug. 1615389Sept. 1619466
Jan. 1616400Oct.480
Aug.410Aug. 1620520
April 1617406Feb. 1621530
Aug.410Mar.546
Sept.416May540
Nov.420May 1622480

It was in anticipation of the approaching disorder that on the 3rd of March 1609 a Mint treaty had been made between Mecklenburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Lübeck, and Hamburg, "for protection against the Mint disorder, which is most disastrous to land and people, and to take precaution against the advance of the larger silver specie." Seven years later, on the 10th January 1616, the merchants and financiers of Hamburg drew up a petition

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