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3 Pfennig - Ferdinand II of Fürstenberg
| Issuer | Bishopric of Paderborn |
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| Year | 1676 |
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| Diameter | 19 mm |
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| Reverse description | The Roman numeral III, denoting the coin's value of three Pfennig, displayed prominently within an ornamented square frame featuring scrollwork decoration at the corners and sides. The date 1676 and the legend ANNO. DOMINI. are distributed around the central device within a circular border, completing the reverse composition in a plain, functional style typical of small-denomination German copper coinage of the period. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Ferdinand II von Fürstenberg governed Paderborn from 1661 until his death in 1683, an episcopate defined as much by his scholarship — he wrote extensively on Roman antiquities in Westphalia — as by the administrative pressures of rebuilding a diocese still recovering from the Thirty Years' War's devastation. Small copper pfennig issues like this one were a practical necessity: silver coinage had drained from the region during decades of military occupation and indemnity payments, and subsidiary copper denominations filled the gap in everyday parish-town commerce.