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12 Pfennig
| Issuer | Paderborn, City of |
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| Year | 1605 |
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| Diameter | 25 mm |
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| Obverse description | Central shield bearing the city arms of Paderborn, set within an ornate baroque frame and encircled by a beaded or linear inner circle. The date appears at the conclusion of the surrounding legend. The legend reads STADT. PADERBORN. in Latin characters, identifying the issuing municipality. The overall style is characteristic of early seventeenth-century German civic coinage, with relatively rough hammered workmanship. |
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| Obverse lettering | STADT. PADERBORN. |
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Paderborn's civic copper issues of the early seventeenth century emerged from a city caught between episcopal authority and municipal autonomy — the prince-bishops and the city council fought bitterly over governing rights throughout this period, and small-denomination copper coinage was one arena where the city asserted independent issuing authority. The 12 Pfennig denomination is peculiar: twelve was an awkward multiple that served local market transactions rather than fitting cleanly into any imperial reckoning system.
Copper civic issues from Westphalian towns of this date circulated hard and survive poorly. The Schwede and Weingärtner references both treat this as a scarce type.