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1 Tobiaspfennig
| Issuer | Frankfurt, Free imperial city of |
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| Year | 1547 |
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| Composition | Copper |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Tobiaspfennig takes its name from the Book of Tobit, a deuterocanonical text, and Frankfurt's civic authorities issued these copper pieces as alms tokens distributed to the poor at the city's hospitals and charitable institutions — not as circulating trade coinage. The 1547 issue falls squarely within Frankfurt's period of intense confessional tension, just a year before the city was forced to accept the Augsburg Interim, which temporarily reimposed Catholic practices on a city that had embraced Lutheranism since the 1530s.
JuF#221 is well-documented in Justus von Füsilier's Frankfurt token literature as one of the earlier datable copper issues in this series.