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1 Pfennig
| Issuer | Rostock, City of |
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| Year | 1735 |
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| Value | 1 Pfennig (1⁄288) |
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| Obverse lettering | ✿ROSTOCKER |
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| Reverse lettering | ✿I✿ 1735 ✿R✿ |
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Rostock's civic coinage authority persisted long after most German cities had ceded minting rights to territorial princes, a function of the city's stubborn Hanseatic independence and its hard-won imperial privileges. By 1735, that autonomy was largely ceremonial — Brandenburg-Prussia was tightening its grip on the region following Sweden's defeat in the Great Northern War — but the city council continued issuing small copper denominations for local market use. The Gaettens gap for this piece suggests it escaped inclusion in that reference's corpus, a not-uncommon gap for minor copper issues of the period.