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1 Pfennig Pattern
| Issuer | Cologne, City of |
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| Year | 1512-1532 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#PnA1, Noss Co IV#51 |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Blank reverse, entirely plain and uninscribed, with no design elements, legends, or decorative motifs. The flat field retains the characteristic surface texture of a hammered gold flan, consistent with a trial or pattern piece struck for assay or presentation purposes rather than circulation. |
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Cologne's gold pfennig patterns of this period were produced as presentation or test strikes during a prolonged civic monetary dispute — the city's mint authority was frequently contested between the municipal council and the Archbishop, and such pieces functioned as much as political assertions of civic minting rights as they did as technical proofs. A gold striking of a pfennig denomination is deliberately paradoxical: the face value is trivial, the metal absurdly elevated, which is precisely the point.
Noss remains the essential reference for Cologne civic coinage of this type, and the KM cross-reference adds little beyond accessibility. Fewer than a handful of specimens are documented in major collections.