Paderborn's municipal copper issues of the early seventeenth century were minted under the shadow of ongoing tension between the city and the prince-bishopric that surrounded it — a conflict over civic autonomy that would eventually see the city lose its independent minting rights entirely. This piece dates to a period when the city still exercised that privilege, however precariously.
The KM#355.1 designation distinguishes this from at least one die variant catalogued under the same type in Weingärtner's Westfalen corpus.
Paderborn's municipal copper issues of the early seventeenth century were minted under the shadow of ongoing tension between the city and the prince-bishopric that surrounded it — a conflict over civic autonomy that would eventually see the city lose its independent minting rights entirely. This piece dates to a period when the city still exercised that privilege, however precariously.
The KM#355.1 designation distinguishes this from at least one die variant catalogued under the same type in Weingärtner's Westfalen corpus.