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1 Pfennig
| Issuer | Free city of Regensburg (German States) |
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| Year | 1696 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse lettering | 1696 |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Regensburg's status as a Free Imperial City gave it the right to strike its own coinage, a privilege it exercised jealously well into the late seventeenth century despite the city's modest economic weight. By 1696 the Holy Roman Empire was still absorbing the aftershocks of the Thirty Years' War and the ongoing costs of resistance against Ottoman expansion — small silver pfennigs like this one circulated in a monetary environment flooded with debased regional issues, making even minor silver fractions a practical necessity for daily commerce.
The 1696 date places this coin squarely in the tenure of the Reichstag's permanent session at Regensburg, which had convened there without interruption since 1663.