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2 Pfennigs
| Issuer | Hildesheim, City of |
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| Year | 1695-1760 |
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| Composition | Billon |
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| Obverse description | Central field bearing the arms of the City of Hildesheim: a double-headed imperial eagle displayed, set upon a shield of pointed base form. A circular legend in Latin script surrounds the central device, running along the coin's periphery. The relief is bold and characteristic of the small billon coinage of German municipal mints of the late 17th and early 18th centuries. The overall style is typical of the hammered technique, with an irregular flan edge. |
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| Reverse lettering | II STADT PFENNIG |
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Hildesheim occupied an awkward position throughout much of this period — a prince-bishopric with its own coinage rights sitting inside the Holy Roman Empire, perpetually navigating tensions between the ecclesiastical administration and the city council. Small billon pieces like this circulated alongside the city's larger issues and the coinage of neighboring Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel, which increasingly dominated the region's petty cash economy. The long date range suggests production was intermittent rather than continuous, likely tied to periodic shortages of small change rather than any sustained mint program.