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3 Pfennig
| Issuer | Hamm, City of |
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| Year | 1696-1746 |
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| Value | 3 Pfennigs (3 Pfennige) (1⁄96) |
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| Obverse description | Central oval cartouche bearing the arms of the city of Hamm — a chequered shield — enclosed within a stylized foliate or scroll border. The legend STADT HAMM is distributed around the periphery in Latin characters, with the date appearing above the shield. A beaded border runs along the outer rim of the coin. |
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| Reverse description | The Roman numeral III appears prominently in the upper field, with the abbreviation PFEN inscribed beneath, forming a two-line denomination legend. The entire inscription is framed within a wreath of laurel or olive branches tied at the base, with the sprays rising symmetrically to either side. A beaded border encircles the design along the coin's rim. |
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Hamm, a Westphalian city that passed between Brandenburg-Prussian administration and various competing jurisdictions through the late seventeenth century, issued small copper pfennig denominations largely to address chronic shortages of low-value specie — a problem endemic across fragmented German territories where imperial coinage policy struggled to reach the smallest transactional denominations. Local municipal issues of this type were technically tolerated rather than officially sanctioned, existing in a gray area of the imperial monetary framework.
The fifty-year span of this issue suggests periodic restriking from the same or successor dies rather than continuous production, a common municipal practice when original authorizations lapsed quietly without formal renewal.