2006 AD., Germany, Federal Republic, 650th anniversary of Hanseatic League commemorative, Hamburg mint, 10 Euro, KM 247.

Germany, Federal Republic, 650th anniversary of Hanseatic League commemorative, engraver: Erich Ott, Hamburg mint ("J"), 2006 AD., issued 07/Sep./2006,
10 Euro (ø 32,5 mm / 18,08 g), 0.925 silver, 18,00 g theor. mint weight, mintage 1.900.000 (in total), axes medal alignment ↑↑, plain, immerged lettered edge,
Obv.: BUNDESREPUBLIK / DEUTSCHLAND / J / 10 EURO - 2006 , issuer, mint mark and value below German national emblem eagle, date to r., 12 stars in a semicirle above.
Rev.: 650 JAHRE STÄDTEHANSE , a cog sailing left (as symbol of the Hanseatic League), four sailors on deck, medieval buildings in background.
Edge: plain with immerged inscription "WANDEL DURCH HANDEL ~ VON DER HANSE NACH EUROPA ~ ~ " (CHANGE BY TRADE ~ FROM HANSEATIC LEAGUE TO EUROPE ~ ~ ).
KM 247 .

Year / Mint Mark / Mintage
2006 / J / 1.600.000
2006 / J / 300.000

The Hanseatic League (also known as the Hanse or Hansa; Low German: Hanse, Dudesche Hanse, Latin: Hansa, Hansa Teutonica or Liga Hanseatica) was a commercial and defensive confederation of merchant guilds and their market towns. It dominated Baltic maritime trade (c. 1400–1800) along the coast of Northern Europe. It stretched from the Baltic to the North Sea and inland during the Late Middle Ages and early modern period (c. 13th to 17th centuries).
The League was created to protect economic interests and diplomatic privileges in the cities and countries and along the trade routes the merchants visited. The Hanseatic cities had their own legal system and furnished their own armies for mutual protection and aid. Despite this, the organization was not a city-state, nor can it be called a confederation of city-states; only a very small number of the cities within the league enjoyed autonomy and liberties comparable to those of a free imperial city.
The principal city and linchpin was Lübeck; with the first general Diet of the Hansa held there in 1356, the Hanseatic League acquired an official structure.

more on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanseatic_League