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12 Pfennig
| Issuer | Rheine, City of |
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| Year | 1602 |
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| Reference(s) | Weing Westfalens#241 |
| Obverse description | Four countermarks applied to the field of a host coin. In the upper portion, a rectangular cartouche contains three six-pointed stars arranged horizontally. Below the cartouche, three capital letter R punches are struck individually into the field, arranged in a loose horizontal row. The countermarks are attributed to the City of Rheine and collectively certify the coin's validity for local circulation at 12 Pfennig. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Rheine, a small Westphalian town on the Ems, issued emergency copper coinage in the early seventeenth century largely because the regional silver supply for small denominations had collapsed under the pressures of the Eighty Years' War and the broader monetary chaos gripping the Holy Roman Empire. The 12 Pfennig denomination in copper was an unusual choice — copper pfennig issues from minor civic authorities were rarely sanctioned at this face value, and the Weing Westfalens reference #241 documents it as a scarce survivor of what was an inherently short-lived local necessity coinage.