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1 Witten
| Issuer | City of Stralsund (German States) |
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| Year | 1763 |
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| Value | 1 Witten (4) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | ＊I ＊ WITTEN S·S·M· LDS |
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Stralsund spent much of the Seven Years' War under Prussian siege, and by 1763 — the year the Treaty of Paris and the Peace of Hubertusburg both concluded — the city's finances were badly strained. The Witten was an archaic north German denomination already fading from use across most of the region, and this issue reflects a municipality scraping together emergency small change from debased billon rather than relying on any central monetary authority.