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3 Pfennig - Ferdinand of Bayern
| Issuer | Bishopric of Münster |
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| Year | 1643 |
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| Currency | Thaler |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Struck at the height of the Thirty Years' War, just five years before the Peace of Westphalia was signed in Münster itself — the very city whose bishop issued this coin. Ferdinand of Bavaria held the see from 1612 until his death in 1650, accumulating ecclesiastical titles across northwest Germany with unusual aggression; he simultaneously held Cologne, Liège, Hildesheim, and Paderborn. That concentration of Catholic power in the region was precisely what prolonged the war's western campaigns.
The 0.53g weight reflects severe wartime debasement pressures common to minor German ecclesiastical mints by the 1640s.