3 Pfennig

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.