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1 Pfennig
| Issuer | Schweinfurt, City of |
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| Year | 1622 |
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| Value | 1 Pfennig (1⁄288) |
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| Obverse description | Central shield bearing the Schweinfurt civic coat of arms, depicting an eagle displayed. The date 1622 is divided across the lower field, flanked by the numerals '16' and '22' to either side of the shield. The initials 'S' and 'M' appear at the left and right of the shield's midfield, with the Pfennig symbol (₰) and 'A' positioned above. The design is contained within a beaded border, characteristic of roller-milled coinage of the early seventeenth century. |
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| Mintage | 1622 |
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Schweinfurt's copper pfennig of 1622 belongs to the chaotic wave of municipal emergency coinage that flooded the Holy Roman Empire during the Kipper- und Wipperzeit — a currency crisis so destabilizing that it contributed directly to hyperinflation in the early years of the Thirty Years' War. Cities, princes, and petty lords debased silver coinage aggressively, forcing municipalities like Schweinfurt to issue their own small copper pieces simply to maintain local trade when debased coins drove good ones out of circulation entirely.