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1½ Pfenning
| Issuer | Münster, City of |
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| Year | 1740-1758 |
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| Value | 11/2 Pfennig (1⁄192) |
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| Obverse lettering | MS |
| Reverse description | Denomination expressed in three lines across the central field, reading 'I', '½', and 'PFENNING', with the date '1758' inscribed below. The legends are separated by plain horizontal rules and enclosed within a toothed or milled border following the coin's rim, characteristic of small German copper coinage of the mid-eighteenth century. |
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Münster's 1½ Pfennig denomination is an oddity even by the fragmented standards of mid-18th century German coinage — fractional values of this kind emerged from the practical chaos of multiple competing local tariff systems, where a straightforward Pfennig simply failed to map cleanly onto prevailing price structures. The city's monetary authority issued across nearly two decades, long enough to produce the two distinct varieties Weingärtner catalogued separately as #227 and #228.