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2 Pfennig
| Issuer | Goslar, City of |
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| Year | 1739-1740 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Three-line centred inscription occupying the field, reading 2 / PFENN / (date), denoting the denomination of 2 Pfennig followed by the year of issue. The numerals and letters are rendered in a bold serif style consistent with early eighteenth-century German minor coinage. The legend is surrounded by a plain border with a milled edge visible on the coin's periphery. No additional devices or ornaments are present in the field. |
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Goslar's right to mint its own coinage was a persistent friction point with the surrounding Duchy of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel throughout the early eighteenth century. By 1739, the city's independent minting authority was already vestigial — these small silver pfennig pieces were among the last assertions of municipal coinage rights before Goslar's monetary autonomy collapsed entirely under Hanoverian pressure.