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12 Pfennig
| Issuer | Beckum, City of |
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| Year | 1595 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Central field bears the large Roman numeral denomination mark XII within a beaded circular border, occupying the majority of the reverse field. A circular Latin legend surrounds the central device, reading STADT BECKEM 1595, though heavily worn and partially illegible due to the crude hammered strike and subsequent corrosion. The overall composition is typical of small-denomination German municipal emergency or token coinage of the late 16th century. |
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Beckum's copper 12 Pfennig of 1595 falls within a period of widespread municipal coinage crisis across Westphalia, when the debasement of imperial silver coinage forced dozens of smaller cities to issue their own copper emergency pieces to meet local transactional demand. Beckum held market town rights but lacked significant mint infrastructure, making this issue a pragmatic civic measure rather than a statement of monetary ambition.
The Weinberg Westfalens reference (107) places it firmly within the documented local coinage corpus, though surviving examples remain scarce — small copper civic issues of this period circulated hard and were rarely preserved.