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.
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.