3 Pfennig - Ferdinand II of Fürstenberg

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.