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1 Pfennig Gold pattern strike
| Issuer | Nuremberg, Free imperial city of |
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| Year | 1772 |
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| Value | 1 Pfennig (1⁄480) |
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| Obverse description | The municipal arms of Nuremberg displayed on a baroque cartouche within a laurel wreath: a diagonally divided shield bearing a half-eagle and diagonal barry stripes, surmounted by an ornate crown. The date is split across the upper field with the last two digits flanking the shield, and the Pfennig denomination mark (₰) appears in the legend above. The inscription '17 S • I • ₰ 89' is arranged around the upper portion of the field, referencing the date 1772 and the issuing city's mintmaster's initials. |
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| Obverse lettering | 17 S • I • ₰ 89 |
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Nuremberg's status as a Free Imperial City gave its mint unusual latitude to produce presentation and pattern pieces well into the eighteenth century, long after most German minting authorities had consolidated under territorial princes. This 1772 gold striking of the one Pfennig was almost certainly produced as a Schaustück — a show piece intended for gift exchange among civic officials or as a cabinet curiosity — rather than any proposed circulating issue. No gold Pfennig was ever a practical monetary proposition.
Kelln 401 is among the later documented patterns from the Nuremberg civic mint, which would lose its independent minting rights entirely just over two decades later following the city's mediatization in 1806.