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3 Pfennig
| Issuer | Münster, Cathedral chapter of |
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| Year | 1739-1760 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | III PFENNING 1753 |
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The Cathedral Chapter of Münster operated as a sovereign ecclesiastical authority within the Holy Roman Empire, retaining minting rights that most secular territories had long surrendered or consolidated. These small copper issues served the intensely local economy around the cathedral precinct and the wider Westphalian market, where coinage from dozens of competing ecclesiastical and secular mints circulated simultaneously — making small-denomination copper a practical necessity rather than a prestige issue.
The chapter's minting activity across this period coincided with the Seven Years' War, during which Münster was occupied by French forces in 1757.