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12 Pfennig
| Issuer | Beckum, City of |
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| Year | 1622 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | The municipal arms of Beckum displayed on a crowned shield at centre, depicting a diagonal band with stylized decorative charges. The shield is surmounted by a decorative crown with scrollwork. The circular legend STADT BECKEM runs around the periphery, separated from the central device by a dotted inner border. |
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| Reverse description | The numeral XII, rendered in large interlocking Gothic-style letterforms, occupies a plain square frame at centre, with the small numeral 6 visible within the design, the whole surrounded by elaborate foliate and scrollwork ornamentation filling the field to the coin's edge. The date 1622 is incorporated within the central square frame flanking the value numerals. |
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Beckum's 12 Pfennig of 1622 belongs to the flood of municipal copper emergency coinage — Kipper- und Wipperzeit issues — produced across German territories during one of the worst currency crises in early modern European history. Mints and municipalities debased silver coinage so aggressively between roughly 1619 and 1623 that smaller jurisdictions like Beckum stepped in to fill the vacuum with copper fractions. Westphalian civic issues from this period are among the most locally varied in the German states, with many surviving in tiny numbers.