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1 Pfennig
| Issuer | Nuremberg, Free imperial city of |
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| Year | 1600-1613 |
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| Value | 1 Pfennig (1⁄210) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Uniface strike; the reverse is blank and unworked, showing only the plain metal surface with traces of the hammering process, as is characteristic of this small billon pfennig denomination struck at Nuremberg in the early seventeenth century. |
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Nuremberg's municipal coinage operated under a complex arrangement throughout the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, with the city council exercising jealously guarded minting rights that repeatedly put it in conflict with imperial oversight. These small billon pfennigs circulated primarily within the city and its immediate hinterland, supplementing the larger silver issues for which Nuremberg was far better known. The date range spans the tenure of several successive Münzmeisters whose records survive in the Stadtarchiv.