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1 Pfennig - Ferdinand II of Fürstenberg
| Issuer | Bishopric of Paderborn |
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| Year | 1676 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Reverse description | A large Roman numeral I, denoting the denomination of one Pfennig, displayed within an ornamented rhombus or lozenge-shaped cartouche at centre. The circumferential Latin legend incorporates the date at its conclusion, following the convention common to contemporary German copper pfennigs. |
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| Reverse lettering | ANNO DOMINI. |
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Ferdinand II von Fürstenberg governed Paderborn from 1661 until his death in 1683, a tenure marked by ambitious rebuilding after the devastation of the Thirty Years' War. The bishopric's copper pfennig issues of this period were essentially emergency small change — the war had so thoroughly disrupted the regional monetary supply that ecclesiastical mints across Westphalia were pressed into producing base-metal fractions decades after the 1648 peace. Schwede's die pairing classification A/a suggests this is among the earlier die combinations documented for the 1676 emission.