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1 Pfennig
| Issuer | Münster, City of |
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| Year | 1603-1697 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse lettering | * I * |
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| Mintage | ND (1603-1697) - #222a: *STADT • MVNSTER * - ND (1603-1697) - #222b: *STADT • M - VNSTER * - ND (1603-1697) - #222c: *STADT • M - VИSTER * - |
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Münster's copper pfennig issues of the seventeenth century were produced against a backdrop of near-continuous monetary disorder in the Westphalian region — the Thirty Years' War gutted silver supplies across the Holy Roman Empire, forcing dozens of municipal authorities to issue small copper coinage simply to keep local markets functioning. Münster itself endured the catastrophic Anabaptist siege of 1534–35 as a longer memory, but the more immediate pressure on this series was the post-war rebuilding economy and the chronic shortage of reliable low-denomination specie.
The ninety-four year span of this type reflects municipal conservatism rather than uninterrupted production.