Functional equation for Hecke $L$-series

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In Silverman's Advanced Topics in the Arithmetic of Elliptic Curves, Theorem II.10.3, we have

Let $L(s,\psi)$ be the Hecke $L$-series attached to the Größencharakter $\psi$. Then $L(s,\psi)$ has an analytic continuation to the entire complex plane and satisfies a functional equation relating its values at $s$ and $N-s$ for some real number $N = N(\psi)$.

After reading Tate's thesis I'm somewhat uneasy about this claim. It seems that the functional equation should relate $L(s,\psi)$ to $L(1-s,\overline{\psi})$; and in particular, $N$ is always $1$.

The later results (II.10.5.1) seem to require a functional equation relating $L(s,\psi)$ to either $L(2-s,\overline{\psi})$ or $L(2-s,\psi)$. I don't know what this could be. Can anybody help?

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Both statements are correct. What is going on here is that the Groessencharacter of an elliptic curve with CM satisfies some relation like $\overline{\psi(x)} = \psi (x^\sigma) \varepsilon(x)$, where $\varepsilon$ is the norm character and $x \mapsto x^\sigma$ is the action of complex conjugation on the ideles of $K$. Since multiplying a Groessencharacter by a power of $\varepsilon$ just shifts its Hecke L-series, this relates the functional equation a la Tate and a la Silverman.