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3 Pfennig
| Issuer | Soest, City of |
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| Year | 1727-1736 |
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| Value | 3 Pfennigs (3 Pfennige) (1/4) |
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| Obverse description | Central field displays the crowned arms of the city of Soest, depicted as a quartered shield surmounted by a municipal crown. The shield is rendered in a baroque style with decorative mantling or scroll work framing the sides. The date appears to the left of the crown, with the legend STADT SOEST distributed around the periphery in Latin characters. The overall composition is characteristic of early 18th-century German municipal coinage. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Soest had been one of the most powerful Hanseatic cities in Westphalia during the medieval period, but by the early eighteenth century it was a provincial backwater operating under Prussian sovereignty following the 1614 Jülich-Cleves succession crisis. The city retained limited minting rights into the 1730s largely through institutional inertia rather than any economic necessity — a remnant privilege that Brandenburg-Prussia had not yet bothered to revoke.
KM#62 represents one of the final exercises of that privilege before municipal coinage from Soest ceased entirely.