Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
3 Pfennig - Ferdinand II Neisse
| Issuer | Neisse Mint (Bishopric of Breslau, Silesia) |
|---|---|
| Year | 1625 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Round |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Log in to see details |
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | A diamond-shaped (lozenge) ornamental frame with decorative scrollwork in the corners dominates the reverse field. Within the lozenge, an imperial orb surmounts the numeral '3' denoting the denomination. The split date '16' and '25' appears to either side of the central device, confirming the year of issue 1625. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Edge | Log in to see details |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Additional information |
The 1625 date places this squarely within the Kipper und Wipperzeit — the catastrophic currency debasement that swept the Holy Roman Empire in the early Thirty Years' War. Mints across Silesia, including ecclesiastical operations like Neisse under the Bishopric of Breslau, churned out debased billon petty coinage to capitalize on the arbitrage between face value and metal content. The Bishopric's temporal authority over the Neisse mint gave it unusual latitude to participate in what amounted to an empire-wide monetary fraud.
By 1625 the worst of the Kipper crisis had nominally subsided, but the flood of underweight small denominations had already gutted public confidence in the pfennig series across the region.