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1 Stüber
| Issuer | Dortmund, City of |
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| Year | 1631 |
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| Value | 1 Stüber (1⁄52) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | MON. NO. CIV. IMP. TREMONI. |
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Dortmund struck this issue in 1631 at the height of the Thirty Years' War, when the city — nominally an Imperial Free City — was caught between Swedish, Imperial, and Spanish military movements through Westphalia. Local municipal coinage of this period served a practical function: with trade disrupted and foreign coin of uncertain value flooding the region, cities increasingly relied on their own small-denomination silver to keep internal commerce functional. Dortmund's monetary autonomy was already eroding; within decades the city would lose effective independence entirely.