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3 Pfennig
| Issuer | Wismar, City of |
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| Year | 1824-1825 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse description | Central field displays the quartered civic arms of Wismar, featuring a crowned shield divided into four quarters with alternating plain and cross-hatched sections, flanked by elaborate baroque scrollwork and foliate ornaments. The shield is surmounted by a small crown. The circular legend MONETA NOVA WISMARIENSIS runs around the periphery, separated from the inner design by a toothed border. The overall style is characteristic of early nineteenth-century German municipal coinage. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Wismar had been under Swedish administration for over 150 years when these pfennigs were struck — the city was pawned to Mecklenburg-Schwerin by Sweden in 1803, technically as a 100-year pledge, though Sweden never reclaimed it. By 1824, the city retained enough autonomous status to issue its own copper coinage, a privilege that would not survive much longer as German political consolidation eroded local minting rights through the following decades.