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Dortmund's status as a Free Imperial City gave it the right to strike its own coinage, a privilege it exercised with diminishing economic relevance through the mid-eighteenth century. By the 1750s the city's independent monetary authority was largely symbolic — Dortmund had long since ceased to matter as a commercial power, and these small copper issues circulated in a regional economy that barely acknowledged the distinction between municipal and territorial coin.