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1 Pfennig
| Issuer | Hildesheim, City of |
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| Year | 1762-1772 |
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| Value | 1 Pfennig (1⁄288) |
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| Obverse description | The quartered civic arms of Hildesheim displayed within an ornate cartouche-style shield, featuring a stepped division with a lion passant in the upper-left quarter and a diaper-pattern field in the lower-right quarter. A decorative crested helm surmounts the shield at center top. The Latin legend HILDESH. arches above the shield in the upper field, flanked by pellet stops at either side. |
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| Obverse lettering | HILDESH. |
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Hildesheim occupied an unusual constitutional position throughout the eighteenth century — a Prince-Bishopric within the Holy Roman Empire whose municipal coinage authority was perpetually contested between the city council and the episcopal administration. The small copper issues of 1762–1772 fall squarely within this jurisdictional friction, struck by the city itself rather than the bishop's mint during a period when the two governing bodies were actively disputing fiscal prerogatives following the disruptions of the Seven Years' War.