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1 Scherf
| Issuer | Stendal, City of |
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| Year | 1621 |
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| Weight | 0.23 g |
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| Obverse description | Crowned shield bearing a displayed eagle, struck in low relief typical of hammered copper coinage of the early seventeenth century. The date 1621 is inscribed above the shield in the upper field. The design is contained within a beaded or rope border encircling the entire field. The overall style is characteristic of small municipal emergency or subsidiary coinage of the Brandenburg-Altmark region. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Stendal, a Hanseatic town in the Brandenburg Marches, issued emergency copper pfennig-weight coinage in 1621 at the height of the Kipper- und Wipperzeit — the catastrophic currency debasement crisis that swept the Holy Roman Empire between roughly 1619 and 1623. Larger territorial mints were frantically reducing silver content to profit from arbitrage; smaller civic authorities responded by issuing token copper to fill the vacuum left by hoarded good silver. The Scherf was the lowest fractional denomination in the northern German system.