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3 Pfennig
| Issuer | Coesfeld, City of |
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| Year | 1609-1699 |
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| Currency | Thaler |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
| Reverse lettering | III |
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Coesfeld's copper Pfennig issues of the seventeenth century belong to the broader phenomenon of German municipal emergency and subsidiary coinage — Kleingeld that the imperial mints consistently failed to supply in adequate quantities, forcing towns across Westphalia to strike their own low denominations under municipal authority. The city had held minting rights intermittently since the medieval period, and the extended date range of this type reflects restrikes or successive authorizations rather than continuous production across nine decades.
Westphalian copper coinage from this period circulated heavily and wore quickly. Survivors in any discernible state are the exception.